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.