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

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Ca'iaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered.

So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,

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

Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,

And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Be-el'zebul, and by the prince of demons he casts out the demons."

Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?"

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.

And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that first Eli'jah must come?"

And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and 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 deliver him to the Gentiles;

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and sought a way to destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

And 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,

And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the first of all?"

And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

And in his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to go about in long robes, and to have salutations in the market places

It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill him;