²⁴ (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

The Law and the Kingdom of God

^14 (A)The Pharisees, who were ^(B)lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ^(C)ridiculed him.

You Must Be Born Again

3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named ^(A)Nicodemus, ^(B)a ruler of the Jews. ² This man came to Jesus^{[a] (C)}by night and said to him, ^(D)“Rabbi, ^(E)we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do ^(F)unless God is with him.”

⁵³ As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things,

³⁹ And the Lord said to him, ^(A)“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of ^(B)greed and wickedness. ^40 (C)You fools! ^(D)Did not he who made the outside make the inside also? ⁴¹ But ^(E)give as alms those things that are within, and behold, ^(F)everything is clean for you.

^42 (G)“But woe to you Pharisees! For ^(H)you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect ^(I)justice and ^(J)the love of God. ^(K)These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! For ^(L)you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you! ^(M)For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

^30 (A)but the Pharisees and ^(B)the lawyers ^(C)rejected ^(D)the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

¹³ “But woe ^(A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you ^(B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you ^(C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.^{[a] 15} Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single ^(D)proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a ^(E)child of ^(F)hell^[b] as yourselves.

^5 (A)circumcised on the eighth day, ^(B)of the people of Israel, ^(C)of the tribe of Benjamin, ^(D)a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, ^(E)a Pharisee; ^6 (F)as to zeal, ^(G)a persecutor of the church; ^(H)as to righteousness under the law,^[a] blameless.

⁵ They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that ^(A)according to the strictest ^(B)party of our ^(C)religion I have lived as ^(D)a Pharisee.