²⁴ Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees.

The Law, the Prophets, and the Kingdom

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees, ^(A)who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they ^[a]derided Him.

The New Birth

3 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. ^2 (A)This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for ^(B)no one can do these signs that You do unless ^(C)God is with him.”

^53 [a]And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things,

^39 (A)Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but ^(B)your inward part is full of ^[a]greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Foolish ones! Did not ^(C)He who made the outside make the inside also? ^41 (D)But rather give alms of ^[b]such things as you have; then indeed all things are clean to you.

^42 (E)“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and ^(F)pass by justice and the ^(G)love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. ^43 (H)Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the ^[c]best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. ^44 (I)Woe to you, ^[d]scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ^(J)For you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.”

³⁰ But the Pharisees and ^[a]lawyers rejected ^(A)the will of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

¹³ “But ^(A)woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. ^14 [a]Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ^(B)For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

¹⁵ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of ^[b]hell as yourselves.

⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, ^(A)of the tribe of Benjamin, ^(B)a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, ^(C)a Pharisee; ⁶ concerning zeal, ^(D)persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

⁵ They knew me from the first, if they were willing to testify, that according to ^(A)the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.