¹⁵ The Lord then answered him and said, ^[a]“Hypocrite! ^(A)Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?

⁵ Then He answered them, saying, ^(A)“Which of you, having a ^[a]donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

⁹ Then Saul, who also is called Paul, ^(A)filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him ¹⁰ and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, ^(B)you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, “I did one work, and you all marvel. ^22 (A)Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, ^(B)but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because ^(C)I made a man completely well on the Sabbath? ^24 (D)Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

²⁰ But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because ^(A)you thought that ^(B)the gift of God could be purchased with money! ²¹ You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your ^(C)heart is not right in the sight of God. ²² Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God ^(D)if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. ²³ For I see that you are ^(E)poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”

Beware of Hypocrisy^(A)

12 In ^(B)the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, ^(C)“Beware of the ^[a]leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

⁴² Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

²⁸ Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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.