“Woe to you P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] and Torah-teachers (Scribes), hypocrites because you close up the Kingdom of heaven before men; you yourselves do not enter and those who wish to enter you do not permit to enter”.
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the Torah at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten [them], they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Yeshua [God is Salvation], and let them go.
And as he said these things unto them, the Torah-teachers (Scribes) and the P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] began to urge [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: