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Beware of the Scribes, who choose to walk in long robes, and love a salutation in the streets, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief couches at suppers:

And the chief priests and Scribes sought how they might kill him, for they were afraid of the people.

And he went and conferred with the chief priests and Scribes, and the military commanders of the temple, how he might betray him to them.

And when the day dawned, the Elders and chief priests and Scribes assembled together; and they led him to the place of their meeting,

And the chief priests and Scribes stood up, and accused him vehemently.

And the Scribes and Pharisees brought forward a woman that was caught in adultery. And when they had placed her in the midst,

And the next day, the rulers and the Elders and the Scribes assembled;

And they excited the people, and the Elders, and the Scribes; and they came, and rose upon him, and seized him, and carried him into the midst of the council.

And there was great vociferation. And some Scribes of the party of the Pharisees rose up, and contended with them, and said. We have found nothing evil in this man: for if a spirit or an angel hath conversed with him, what is there in that?

But foolish questions, and stories of genealogies, and the disputes and contests of the scribes, avoid: for there is no profit in them, and they are vain.