Then some of the experts in the law said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!”

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law and elders – were mocking him:

Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.