The Pharisees and the Herodians (Notes)

Saint Mark - Chapter 3

[after Christ healed the withered hand]

The Pharisees and the Herodians. J-J Tissot

[6] Exeuntes autem pharisaei, statim cum Herodianis consilium faciebant adversus eum quomodo eum perderent.
And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

Notes from The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 1897 by J-J Tissot

''The spot represented in our picture is near a synagogue, and trees had been planted to afford shelter from the sun for the doctors who frequented it to talk together. The tree shown were cypresses, pines and cedars, all of a more or less sombre aspect, harmonisng well with and accentuating the secluded character of this place sacred to meditation. Seats were contrived in the stone walls, so that the doctors could sit at their ease.''

The Pharisees

See St Matthew - Chapter 23

Excerpts

[3] All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.
[5] And all their works they do for to be seen of men.
[24] Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
[27] Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness.
[28] So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
...you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.
[33] You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?
[34] Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:
[35] That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam