14 Bible Verses about Scribes

Some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is talking blasphemy!"

And in the course of his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes and to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at dinners??40 men that eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get a far heavier sentence!"

As Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

So he called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ was to be born.

The disciples asked him, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

But when the high priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and saw the boys shouting in the Temple, "God bless the Son of David!" they were indignant,

There were some scribes sitting there pondering and saying to themselves, "Why does this man talk so? This is blasphemy. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

They aroused the people, the elders, and the scribes, and they set upon him and seized him, and brought him before the council.

On the next day the leading members of the council, the elders, and the scribes met in Jerusalem,

So they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all about the name of Jesus.

and one of them, an expert in the Law, to test him, asked,

One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?"

Then the high priests and the elders of the people gathered in the house of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

Meanwhile the high priests and the scribes stood by and vehemently accused him.

for he taught them like one who had authority and not like their scribes.

And they were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom?

And in the course of his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes and to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at dinners??40 men that eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get a far heavier sentence!"

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.

He said to them, "Then remember that every scribe who has become a disciple of the Kingdom of Heaven must be like a householder who can supply from his storeroom new things as well as old."

"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat.

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!"

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