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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 questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "What commandment is the greatest of all?"

Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might sieze him by deception, and kill him.

Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came -- and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.

They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself.

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don't know it."

As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, that the chief priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him that very hour, but they feared the people -- for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.

Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."