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.
(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.