²⁴ Now the Pharisees who had been sent

¹⁴ The Pharisees, who loved money,^(A) heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.^(B)

Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus^(A) who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.^{(B) 2} He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi,^(C) we know^(D) that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs^(E) you are doing if God were not with him.”^(F)

⁵³ When Jesus went outside, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions,

³⁹ Then the Lord^(A) said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.^{(B) 40} You foolish people!^(C) Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? ⁴¹ But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor,^(D) and everything will be clean for you.^(E)

⁴² “Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth^(F) of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God.^(G) You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.^(H)

⁴³ “Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces.^(I)

⁴⁴ “Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves,^(J) which people walk over without knowing it.”

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the experts in the law^(A) rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

¹³ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!^(A) You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.^{(B) [14] [a]}

¹⁵ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert,^(C) and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell^(D) as you are.

⁵ circumcised^(A) on the eighth day, of the people of Israel,^(B) of the tribe of Benjamin,^(C) a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;^{(D) 6} as for zeal,^(E) persecuting the church;^(F) as for righteousness based on the law,^(G) faultless.

⁵ They have known me for a long time^(A) and can testify, if they are willing, that I conformed to the strictest sect^(B) of our religion, living as a Pharisee.^(C)