And those sent were of the Pharisees,
`Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.
And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,
And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,
but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.
He said, `I `am' a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'
and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'
for Sadducees, indeed, say there is no rising again, nor messenger, nor spirit, but Pharisees confess both.
knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;
