One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to debate and say, "Who is this man who talks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled about it to his disciples, and said, "Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"

They said to him, "John's disciples observe frequent fasts and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples eat and drink."

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why do you do what it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath?"

And the scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether he would cure people on the Sabbath, in order to find a charge to bring against him.

but the Pharisees and experts in the Law thwarted God's purpose for themselves, by refusing to be baptized by him.

One of the Pharisees asked him to have dinner with him, and he went to the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table.

Now there was a woman in the town who was leading a sinful life, and when she learned that he was having dinner at the Pharisee's house, she got an alabaster flask of perfume,

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

When he said this, a Pharisee asked him to lunch with him, and he went to his house and took his place at table.

The Pharisee noticed that he did not wash before the meal, and he was surprised.

But the Master said to him, "You Pharisees clean the outside of cups and dishes, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

But alas for you Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint, rue, and every tiny herb, and disregard justice and the love of God. But you should have observed these, without neglecting the others.

Alas for you Pharisees! For you love to have the front seat in the synagogues and to be saluted with respect in public places.

After he left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to watch him closely and to try to draw him out on many subjects,

Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

Just then some Pharisees came up and said to him, "Go! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

And Jesus said to the Pharisees and the experts in the Law, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath or not?"

And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, and said, "This man welcomes irreligious people, and even eats with them!"

The Pharisees, who were avaricious, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

He was once asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, and he answered, "The Kingdom of God is not coming visibly,

"Two men went up to the Temple to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector.

The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.

Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Master, reprove your disciples!"