One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing.

Then the scribes and Pharisees began to argue, "Who is this blasphemer? Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

They said to him, "The disciples of John fast frequently and offer prayers, as do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your adherents eat and drink."

Some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not allowed on the sabbath?"

and the scribes and Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the sabbath, so as to discover some charge against him.

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

One of the Pharisees asked him to dinner, and entering the house of the Pharisee he reclined at table.

Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume

When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

When he finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to take a meal in his house; so he went in and lay down at table.

The Pharisee was astonished to see that he had not washed before the meal,

but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice.

But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omitting the former.

Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces.

After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points,

Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,

Just then some Pharisees came up to tell him, "Get away from here, for Herod intends to kill you."

Now when he entered the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees to take a meal, they watched him closely.

so Jesus asked the jurists and Pharisees, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath or not?"

but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"

Now the Pharisees who were fond of money heard all this, and they sneered at him.

On being asked by the Pharisees when the Reign of God was coming, he answered them, "The Reign of God is not coming as you hope to catch sight of it;

"Two men went up to pray in the temple; one was a Pharisee and the other was a taxgatherer.

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Check your disciples, teacher."