One day he was teaching, and near to him were seated Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

And the Scribes and Pharisees began to cavil. "Who is this?" they asked, "speaking blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

And the Pharisees and their scribes began complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why are you eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?"

And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"

Now the Scribes and Pharisees kept watching to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to bring on accusations to him.

but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.

One of the Pharisees kept urging him to dine, so he entered the house and reclined at table.

Now there was a woman who was in the city, a sinner and when she knew that that Jesus was reclining at meat in the Pharisees house, she brought an alabaster vase of perfume,

When he noticed this the Pharisee, who had invited him, said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet he would have perceived who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, and would know that she is a sinner."

When he had finished speaking a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in with him and reclined.

And the Pharisee noticed, to his amazement, that he did not wash his hands before eating,

but the Lord said to him. "You Pharisee do cleanse the outside of your cup or plate, but your secret heart is full of extortion and wickedness.

"But woe unto you Pharisee! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and disregard justice and the love of God; but these you ought to have done, and not leave the other undone.

"Woe unto you Pharisee! for you delight in the best seats in the synagogue, and in the salutation in the market-places.

After he had gone away, the Scribes and the Pharisee began to set themselves vehemently against him, and to cross-question him upon many points,

Meanwhile when myriads of the multitudes were thronging around him so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples, first of all. "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee, which is hypocrisy.

That very day there came some Pharisees to him, saying, "Get out of here and go away, for Herod wishes to kill you."

It happened on the Sabbath Day when he went into the house of a certain ruler among Pharisees to take a meal, that they were watching him.

So Jesus questioned the lawyers and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day or not?"

And the Pharisees and Scribes began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"

Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him.

The Pharisees asked him when the kingdom of God was coming. He answered. "The kingdom of God does not come so that you can catch sight of it,

"Two men are going up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-gatherer.

"The Pharisee stood apart and thus began to pray by himself. "'O God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax gatherer;

And some of the Pharisees said to them out of the crowd, "Teacher reprove your disciples!"