Bible Verses About Scribes

And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born.

For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees.

He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say that Elias must come first?

And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying: Hosanna to the son of David, were moved with indignation,

And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:

Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte. And when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:

And they were astonished at his doctrine. For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes.

And there were some of the scribes sitting there and thinking in their hearts:

Why doth this man speak thus? He blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only?

And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with publicans and sinners, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils.

And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first commandment of all.

And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the scribes say that Christ is the son of David?

And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace,

And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues and to have the highest places at suppers:

And the chief priests and the scribes stood by, earnestly accusing him.

And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery: and they set her in the midst,

And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

And they stirred up the people and the ancients and the scribes. And running together, they took him and brought him to the council.

But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God willing, he departed from Ephesus.

And there arose a great cry. And some of the Pharisees rising up, strove, saying: We find no evil in this man. What if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel?

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?