because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,

“The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.

The chief priests and the experts in the law were there, vehemently accusing him.

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Then they asked him, “Why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.

The disciples asked him, “Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house the experts in the law and the elders had gathered.

The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the ruler of demons he casts out demons.”

They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to him