And they who were sent were of the Pharisees.
You blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptize you then, if you are not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that prophet?
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Who knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most strict sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
