because he taught them like one who had authority,<n id="1" /> not like their experts in the law.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Pharisees<n id="1" /> and experts in the law<n id="2" /> came from Jerusalem<n id="3" /> to Jesus and said,<n id="4" />

&#8220;The<n id="1" /> experts in the law<n id="2" /> and the Pharisees<n id="3" /> sit on Moses&#8217; seat.

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law,<n id="1" /> he asked them where the Christ<n id="2" /> was to be born.

The disciples asked him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Why then do the experts in the law<n id="2" /> say that Elijah must come first?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You<n id="2" /> build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves<n id="3" /> of the righteous.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house<n id="1" /> the experts in the law<n id="2" /> and the elders had gathered.

But when the chief priests and the experts in the law<n id="1" /> saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Hosanna to the Son of David,&#8221; they became indignant

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites!<n id="2" /> You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven!<n id="3" /> For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert,<n id="2" /> and when you get one,<n id="3" /> you make him twice as much a child of hell<n id="4" /> as yourselves!p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this reason I<n id="1" /> am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law,<n id="2" /> some of whom you will kill and crucify,<n id="3" /> and some you will flog<n id="4" /> in your synagogues<n id="5" /> and pursue from town to town,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth<n id="2" /> of mint, dill, and cumin,<n id="3" /> yet you neglect what is more important in the law &#8211; justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You<n id="4" /> should have done these things without neglecting the others.