¹¹ and the Pharisees came forth, and began to dispute with him, seeking from him a sign from the heaven, tempting him;

³⁸ Then answered certain of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, `Teacher, we will to see a sign from thee.'

¹⁶ and others, tempting, a sign out of heaven from him were asking.

²⁵ And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

⁵³ And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,

⁵⁴ laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

⁵⁴ And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;

⁵⁵ and when -- a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is;

⁵⁶ hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of `it'?

⁵⁷ `And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous?

⁴⁸ Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'

³⁰ They said therefore to him, `What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?

⁴⁸ did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?

⁹ And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband `are' at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;'

²² Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,

²³ also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

¹⁵ And he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, `Why me do ye tempt? bring me a denary, that I may see;'

¹ And gathered together unto him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem,

² and having seen certain of his disciples with defiled hands -- that is, unwashed -- eating bread, they found fault;

¹⁶ And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why -- that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?'

⁷ and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the `strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their `trying' Jehovah, saying, `Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'

¹⁶ `Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

¹⁵ And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven,

² and he answering said to them, `Evening having come, ye say, Fair weather, for the heaven is red,

³ and at morning, Foul weather to-day, for the heaven is red -- gloomy; hypocrites, the face of the heavens indeed ye do know to discern, but the signs of the times ye are not able!

⁴ `A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

⁵ And his disciples having come to the other side, forgot to take loaves,

⁶ and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

⁷ and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, `Because we took no loaves.'

⁸ And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves?

⁹ do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?

¹⁰ nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

¹¹ how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread -- to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?'

¹² Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

³ And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

²³ And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, `By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,

¹⁸ And Jesus having known their wickedness, said, `Why me do ye tempt, hypocrites?

²³ In that day there came near to him Sadducees, who are saying there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,

³⁴ and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him;

³⁵ and one of them, a lawyer, did question, tempting him, and saying,

² and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, `What? -- ye strive with me, what? -- ye try Jehovah?'