Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

So the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”