Scribe(s): Instructors in the Law

…because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.

Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”

The disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.

So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.