But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming?

For I tell you that unless your uprightness is far superior to that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

And the Pharisees observed it, and they said to his disciples, "Why does your master eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees are keeping the fast, while your disciples are not keeping it?"

But the Pharisees said, "It is by the aid of the prince of the demons that he drives them out."

But the Pharisees saw it and said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing something which it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath!"

But the Pharisees left the synagogue and consulted about him, with a view to putting him to death.

But when the Pharisees heard of it they said, "This man cannot drive out demons except by the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees addressed him, saying, "Master, we would like to have you show us some sign."

Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, and said to him,

Then his disciples came up to him and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked to hear you say that?"

The Pharisees and Sadducees came up and to test him asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Why do you not see that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Then they understood that he was warning them not against yeast but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

And some Pharisees came up to him to test him, and they said, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"

When the high priests and the Pharisees heard his figures, they knew that he was speaking about them,

Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to entrap him in argument.

And when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,

While the Pharisees were still gathered there, Jesus asked them,

"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat.

"But alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you lock the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces, for you will neither go in yourselves nor let those enter who are trying to do so.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you scour land and sea to make one convert, and when he is converted you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

You blind Pharisee! You must first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may be clean too.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs! They look well on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead, and all that is unclean.

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate the monuments of the upright,

On the next day, that is, the day after the Preparation Day, the high priests and Pharisees went in a body to Pilate

And when the scribes who were of the Pharisees' party saw that he was eating with irreligious people and tax-collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. And people came and asked him, "Why is it that when John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are keeping the fast, yours are not keeping it?"

And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

Then the Pharisees left the synagogue and immediately consulted with the Herodians about Jesus, with a view to putting him to death.

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews observe the rules handed down from their ancestors, and will not eat until they have washed their hands in a particular way,

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not observe the rules handed down by our ancestors, but eat food without purifying their hands?"

The Pharisees came out and began a discussion with him, testing him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.

And he warned them, saying, "Look out! Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

Some Pharisees came up, and in order to test him asked him whether a man should be allowed to divorce his wife.

They sent some Pharisees and Herodians to him to entrap him in argument.

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!"

Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

The Pharisees heard the people saying these things about him in whispers, and the high priests and the Pharisees sent attendants to arrest him.

The attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to the attendants, "Why have you not brought him?"

The Pharisees answered, "Have you been imposed upon too?

Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?

The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself. Your testimony is not true."

They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,

So Judas got out the garrison and some attendants from the high priests and Pharisees, and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law highly regarded by all the people, got up in the council and ordered the men to be removed for a while,

But some members of the Pharisees' party who had become believers got up and said that such converts ought to be circumcised and told to obey the Law of Moses.

Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

When he said that, a dispute arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the meeting was divided.

For the Sadducees hold that there is no resurrection and that there are no angels or spirits, while the Pharisees believe in all three.

So there was a great uproar, and some scribes of the Pharisees' party got up and insisted, "We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose some spirit or angel really spoke to him!"

for they have known from the first, if they are willing to give evidence, that I was a Pharisee and my life was that of the strictest sect of our religion.

I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a descendant of Israel. I belong to the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew, and the son of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee;