The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees,
Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!
When Jesus left that place, the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began to criticize him bitterly and ask him questions about many things,
When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.
But the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law rejected God's purpose for themselves and refused to be baptized by John.
John answered by quoting the prophet Isaiah: “I am ‘the voice of someone shouting in the desert: Make a straight path for the Lord to travel!’”
then asked John, “If you are not the Messiah nor Elijah nor the Prophet, why do you baptize?”
For the Sadducees say that people will not rise from death and that there are no angels or spirits; but the Pharisees believe in all three.)
They have always known, if they are willing to testify, that from the very first I have lived as a member of the strictest party of our religion, the Pharisees.
