This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:
Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,
This is the text of the letter that Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and thei
“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not
this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had give