Some Pharisees were also sent.
Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.
When he left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things,
The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him.
but the Pharisees and scholars of the law, who were not baptized by him, rejected the plan of God for themselves.)
He said: “I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert, “Make straight the way of the Lord,”’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah or Elijah or the Prophet?”
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection or angels or spirits, while the Pharisees acknowledge all three.
They have known about me from the start, if they are willing to testify, that I have lived my life as a Pharisee, the strictest party of our religion.
