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"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!

"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,

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.

Those who had arrested Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had convened.

In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked Him and said,

They were astonished at His teaching because, unlike the scribes, He was teaching them as one having authority.

But some of the scribes were sitting there, thinking to themselves:

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?"

The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul in Him!" and, "He drives out demons by the ruler of the demons!"

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

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?"

Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, be killed, and rise after three days.

Then they began to question Him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them.

"Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn Him to death. Then they will hand Him over to the Gentiles,

Then the chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to destroy Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished by His teaching.

They came again to Jerusalem. As He was walking in the temple complex, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came

One of the scribes approached. When he heard them debating and saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked Him, "Which command is the most important of all?"

So Jesus asked this question as He taught in the temple complex, "How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the Son of David?