Then He charged them, saying, "Look out, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

But the Pharisees said, " By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons."

Then His disciples approached and said to Him, " You know that when the Pharisees heard this message they were offended?"

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, "Why do You eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

And the scribes and Pharisees were observing if whether He would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against Him.

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but the inside of you is full of greed and evil.

And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be dreadfully hostile, and to cross-examine Him about many things,

lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, so that they might accuse Him.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and they were mocking Him.

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent attendants so that they might arrest Him.

Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, "What are we doing? For this Man works many signs.

Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone knew where He was, he should report [it], so that they might seize Him.

But if you should hate [your wife] and put her away, says the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover your thoughts, says the Lord Almighty: therefore take heed to your own spirit, and forsake them not,

"Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a divorce certificate.'

"But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorcee commits adultery.

The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"

Now to those who have married I command, yet not I, but the Lord: A wife is not to be separated from her husband--

and even if she does separate, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband--and a husband is not to divorce his wife.

Then the Pharisees came out and began to question Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, testing Him.

Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing [Him], they asked Him to show them a sign out of heaven.

Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

But this they said, testing Him, that they might have an accusation against Him. But Jesus, stooping down, began to write on the ground with His finger, not taking notice.

nor let us tempt Christ, just as also some of them tempted [Him], and were destroyed by the serpents;