Matthew 15:1

Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”

I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

“Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”

Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins-” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,

On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?

It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.