¶ And they which were sent, were of the pharises.
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
The messengers had been sent from the Pharisees.
And they had been sent from the Pharisees.
Those sent by the Pharisees
And some of those who had been sent were from among the Pharisees.
And they that were sent, were of the Pharisees.
Thou blind pharise, cleanse first, that which is within the cup and the platter, that the outside may also be clean.
¶ When he thus spake unto them, the lawyers, and the pharises, began to wax busy about him and to stop his mouth with many questions,
¶ All these things heard the pharises also which were covetous. And they mocked him,
But the pharyses and scribes despised the counsel of God, against themselves, and were not baptised of him.
he said: I am the voice of a crier in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esayas.
And they asked him, and said unto him: why baptisest thou then, if thou be not Christ, nor Helias, neither a prophet?
For the saduces say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit. But the pharyses grant both.
which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify it. For after the most straitest sect of our lay, lived I a pharisaye