Scribes

“Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?”

“Hearest thou what these say? Have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?”

“Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only?”

“How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?”

“Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?”

“By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority to do these things?”

“Why then did ye not believe him?”

“Which is the first commandment of all?”

“Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

“Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?”

“Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?”

“Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? Or who is he that gave thee this authority?”

“Why then believed ye him not?”

“But what sayest thou?”