because they would be doctors in the scripture, and yet understand not what they speak, neither whereof they affirm.
Let them alone, they be the blind leaders of the blind. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
And they answered Iesus, and said: we cannot tell. He likewise said unto them: neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
And it fortuned after iij. days, they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and posing them.
¶ And there came certain from jewrie and taught the brethren: except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses ye cannot be saved.
When they counted themselves wise, they became fools
This only would I learn of you, received ye the spirit by the deeds of the law? or else by preaching of the faith?
Which ministered to you the spirit, and worketh miracles among you doth he it thorow the deeds of the law? or by preaching of the faith?
Tell me ye that desire to be under the law: have ye not heard of the law?
he is puffed up and knoweth nothing: but wasteth his brains about questions, and strife of words, whereof spring envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings
ever learning, and never able to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
¶ My brethren, be not every man a master, Remembering how that we shall receive the more damnation.
But these as brute beasts, naturally made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of that they know not, and shall perish through their own destruction,