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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

"Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,

Those who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him and saying,

They were amazed at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, "Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?"

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons."

The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,

The Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?"

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

They asked Him, saying, "Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

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

saying, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles.

The chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.

They came again to Jerusalem. And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to Him,

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?"

And Jesus began to say, as He taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?