He called together all the head cohanim and Torah-teachers of the people and asked them, “Where will the Messiah be born?”

“Don’t think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete.

Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah — not until everything that must happen has happened.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness is far greater than that of the Torah-teachers and P’rushim, you will certainly not enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

“Always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that sums up the teaching of the Torah and the Prophets.

for he was not instructing them like their Torah-teachers but as one who had authority himself.

A Torah-teacher approached and said to him, “Rabbi, I will follow you wherever you go.”

On seeing this, some of the Torah-teachers said among themselves, “This man is blaspheming!”

For all the prophets and the Torah prophesied until Yochanan.

“Or haven’t you read in the Torah that on Shabbat the cohanim profane Shabbat and yet are blameless?

At this some of the Torah-teachers said, “Rabbi, we want to see a miraculous sign from you.”

The Son of Man will send forth his angels, and they will collect out of his Kingdom all the things that cause people to sin and all the people who are far from Torah;

He said to them, “So then, every Torah-teacher who has been made into a talmid for the Kingdom of Heaven is like the owner of a home who brings out of his storage room both new things and old.”

since Yochanan had told Herod, “It violates the Torah for you to have her as your wife.”

Then some P’rushim and Torah-teachers from Yerushalayim came to Yeshua and asked him,

From that time on, Yeshua began making it clear to his talmidim that he had to go to Yerushalayim and endure much suffering at the hands of the elders, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers; and that he had to be put to death; but that on the third day, he had to be raised to life.

The talmidim asked him, “Then why do the Torah-teachers say that Eliyahu must come first?”

“We are now going up to Yerushalayim, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the head cohanim and Torah-teachers. They will sentence him to death

But when the head cohanim and Torah-teachers saw the wonderful things he was doing, and the children crying out in the Temple, “Please deliver us!” to the Son of David, they were furious.

So tell us your opinion: does Torah permit paying taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?”

and one of them who was a Torah expert asked a sh’eilah to trap him:

“Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?”

All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot.”

“The Torah-teachers and the P’rushim,” he said, “sit in the seat of Moshe.

“But woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P’rushim! For you are shutting the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces, neither entering yourselves nor allowing those who wish to enter to do so.

“Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P’rushim! You go about over land and sea to make one proselyte; and when you succeed, you make him twice as fit for Gei-Hinnom as you are!

“Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P’rushim! You pay your tithes of mint, dill and cumin; but you have neglected the weightier matters of the Torah — justice, mercy, trust. These are the things you should have attended to — without neglecting the others!

“Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P’rushim! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.

“Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P’rushim! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but inside are full of dead people’s bones and all kinds of rottenness.

Likewise, you appear to people from the outside to be good and honest, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and far from Torah.

“Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P’rushim! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the tzaddikim,

Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and Torah-teachers — some of them you will kill, indeed, you will have them executed on stakes as criminals; some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.

and many people’s love will grow cold because of increased distance from Torah.

Those who had seized Yeshua led him off to Kayafa the cohen hagadol, where the Torah-teachers and elders were assembled.

Likewise, the head cohanim jeered at him, along with the Torah-teachers and elders,