When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

For I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Then John’s disciples came to Him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?”

But the Pharisees said, “He drives out demons by the ruler of the demons!”

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “The man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”

Then Pharisees and scribes came from Jerusalem to Jesus and asked,

Then the disciples came up and told Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard this statement?”

The Pharisees and Sadducees approached, and as a test, asked Him to show them a sign from heaven.

Then Jesus told them, “Watch out and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Why is it you don’t understand that when I told you, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,’ it wasn’t about bread?”

Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the yeast in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?”

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they knew He was speaking about them.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him by what He said.

When the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they came together.

While the Pharisees were together, Jesus questioned them,

“The scribes and the Pharisees are seated in the chair of Moses.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.

[“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as fit for hell as you are!

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so the outside of it may also become clean.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every impurity.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and asked Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

The Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Him.

(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.

Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?”

The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, demanding of Him a sign from heaven to test Him.

Then He commanded them: “Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to Him to trap Him by what He said.

On one of those days while He was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and also from Jerusalem. And the Lord’s power to heal was in Him.

Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to think: “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to His disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Then they said to Him, “John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

The scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely, to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a charge against Him.

But since the Pharisees and experts in the law had not been baptized by him, they rejected the plan of God for themselves.)

Then one of the Pharisees invited Him to eat with him. He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.

And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of fragrant oil

When the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching Him—she’s a sinner!”

As He was speaking, a Pharisee asked Him to dine with him. So He went in and reclined at the table.

When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that He did not first perform the ritual washing before dinner.

But the Lord said to him: “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil.

“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

“Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely and to cross-examine Him about many things;

In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

At that time some Pharisees came and told Him, “Go, get out of here! Herod wants to kill You!”

One Sabbath, when He went to eat at the house of one of the leading Pharisees, they were watching Him closely.

In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at Him.

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come, He answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable;

“Two men went up to the temple complex to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank You that I’m not like other people —greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Some of the Pharisees from the crowd told Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”

Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.

Then the temple police came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him?”

Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooled too?

Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, making her stand in the center.

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs?

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.

Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You see? You’ve accomplished nothing. Look—the world has gone after Him!”

Nevertheless, many did believe in Him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be banned from the synagogue.

So Judas took a company of soldiers and some temple police from the chief priests and the Pharisees and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

A Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

But some of the believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses!”

When Paul realized that one part of them were Sadducees and the other part were Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees! I am being judged because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”

When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, and no angel or spirit, but the Pharisees affirm them all.

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party got up and argued vehemently: “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

They had previously known me for quite some time, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.

circumcised the eighth day; of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; regarding the law, a Pharisee;