(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;
Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"
Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"
Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did — only to be destroyed by serpents.
Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him.
Now the Pharisees came out and started to argue with him, asking him for a Sign from heaven, by way of tempting him.
Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"
and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him.
But Jesus detected their malice. He said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites?
Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.
But he made no answer to her. Then his disciples came up and pressed him, saying, "Send her away, she is wailing behind us."
I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves.
Early in the morning he returned to the temple, the people all came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
Others by way of tempting him demanded he should give them a Sign from heaven.
Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it."
and they watched to see if he would heal him on the sabbath, so as to get a charge against him.