And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Prushim part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against Elohim.
And when he was come into the Temple, the chief kohanim and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
And the chief kohanim and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief kohanim, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
And while he yet spake, lo, Yhudah, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief kohanim and elders of the people.
And when the chief kohanim and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the Temple, and saying, "Deliverance from the Son of David"; they were sore displeased,
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the Kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
This Ezra went up from Bavel; and he was a ready scribe in the Torah of Moshe, which YY Elohim of Yisrael had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of YY his Elohim upon him.
Moreover all the chief of the kohanim, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of YY which he had hallowed in Yerushalayim.
And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the Torah in the house of YY . And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Lvim there were scribes, and officers, and porters.