Matthew 22:23

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

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.

He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’ ”

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

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?

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

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

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

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

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

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

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

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.

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

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

Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

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

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

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

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.