Matthew 16:1 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.

⁷ But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath? ⁸ Now, produce fruit that answers to your repentance,

²⁰ For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

¹¹ So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"

¹⁴ So the Pharisees withdrew and plotted against him, to destroy him;

³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we would like to have some Sign from you." ³⁹ He replied to them, "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of the prophet Jonah;

¹ Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

⁶ Jesus said to them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

¹¹ Why do you not see that I was not speaking to you about bread? No, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." ¹² Then they realized that what he told them to beware of was not leaven but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

³ Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and plotted to trap him in talk.

¹⁸ But Jesus detected their malice. He said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites?

²³ That same day some Sadducees came up to him, men who hold there is no resurrection. They put this question to him:

³⁴ When the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees, they mustered their forces, ³⁵ and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him.

² "The scribes and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses;

⁶² Next day (that is, on the day after the Preparation) the high priests and Pharisees gathered round Pilate

¹¹ Now the Pharisees came out and started to argue with him, asking him for a Sign from heaven, by way of tempting him. ¹² But he sighed in spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a Sign? I tell you truly, no Sign shall be given this generation." ¹³ Then he left them, embarked again, and went away to the opposite side. ¹⁴ They had forgotten to bring any bread, and had only one loaf with them in the boat. ¹⁵ So he cautioned them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod." ¹⁶ "Leaven?" they argued to themselves, "we have no bread at all." ¹⁷ He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart? ¹⁸ You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear? ¹⁹ Do you not remember how many baskets full of fragments you picked up when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand?" They said, "Twelve." ²⁰ "And how many basketfuls of fragments did you pick up when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand?" They said, "Seven." ²¹ "Do you not understand now?" he said.

² Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him.

¹⁵ Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it."

¹⁸ Sadducees, men who hold there is no resurrection, also came up and put a question to him.

²⁵ Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

¹⁶ Others by way of tempting him demanded he should give them a Sign from heaven.

²⁹ As the crowds were thronging to him, he proceeded to say, "This is an evil generation: it demands a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of Jonah; ³⁰ for as Jonah was a Sign to the Ninivites, so shall the Son of man be to this generation.

⁵³ After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points, ⁵⁴ lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

⁵⁴ And to the crowds he said, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say, 'There is a shower coming,' and so it is: ⁵⁵ when you feel the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be heat,' and so it is. ⁵⁶ You hypocrites, you know how to decipher the look of earth and sky; how is it you cannot decipher the meaning of this era?

²³ But he noted their knavery and said to them,

²⁷ Some of the Sadducees came up, who deny any resurrection, and put a question to him.

³⁰ "Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show? ³¹ Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."

⁶ (They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;

¹ While they were speaking to the people, they were surprised by the priests, the commander of the temple, and the Sadducees,

¹⁷ This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy;

⁶ Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!" ⁷ When he said this, a quarrel broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; the meeting was divided. ⁸ For while the Sadducees declare there is no such thing as resurrection, angels, or spirits, the Pharisees affirm them all.

²² Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom,