they are fond of the best places at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues;

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

"Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent,