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John 1:24

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Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

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You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may become clean.

When he went outside, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile toward him and to cross-examine him about many things,

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

But by refusing to be baptized by him, the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God's purpose for themselves.)

He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ ” as the prophet Isaiah said.

They asked him, “Why then are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

(The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit; but the Pharisees acknowledge all three.)

They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that I have belonged to the strictest sect of our religion and lived as a Pharisee.