And the Pharisees (Pharisaioi | Φαρισαῖοι | nom pl masc) and scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?”
(For the Pharisees (Pharisaioi | Φαρισαῖοι | nom pl masc) and all the Jews do not eat except they ceremonially wash their hands, thus maintaining the tradition of the elders.
So the Pharisees (Pharisaioi | Φαρισαῖοι | nom pl masc) went out immediately and began plotting with Herodians plotting began against him, as to how him. they might do away with him.
The disciples of John and of the Pharisees (Pharisaioi | Φαρισαῖοι | nom pl masc) were fasting. Some people came and said to him, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees (Pharisaiōn | Φαρισαίων | gen pl masc) fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
And the scribes of the Pharisees (Pharisaiōn | Φαρισαίων | gen pl masc), when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, his “Why is he eating with tax collectors and sinners?” is he eating
On the following day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the ruling priests and the Pharisees (Pharisaioi | Φαρισαῖοι | nom pl masc) went as a group to Pilate.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees (Pharisaioi | Φαρισαῖοι | voc pl masc), hypocrites, because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,
