The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
- BSB Then the Pharisees who had been sent
- NKJV Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees.
- NASB And the messengers had been sent from the Pharisees.
- NLT Then the Pharisees who had been sent
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- Luke 11:53As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
- Matt 23:13–15“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
- Luke 11:39–44The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
- Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
- John 3:1–2Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
- Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
- Acts 23:8For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
- Matt 23:26You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
- Phil 3:5–6circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
- John 7:47–49The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
- Acts 26:5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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