There was a great uproar, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees rose up and began to argue, “We find no evil in this man. What if a spirit or angel has spoken to him?”
When he had entered the temple courts, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him while he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
So Judas obtained a detachment of soldiers and some officers of the chief priests and the Pharisees. They came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
The scribes and chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they feared the people.
He began to teach them that the Son of Humanity must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and that he must be killed, and after three days rise again.
While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived with a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and elders of the people.
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were shouting in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant.
He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Empire of Heaven is like a human owner of a house, who brings out of their treasure new and old things.”
this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which YHWH, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to YHWH his God’s hand on him.
Moreover all the chiefs of the priests and the people multiplied their trespassed, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of YHWH which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.