¹⁸ “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you^(A) and your father’s family have. You have abandoned^(B) the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals.

¹¹ So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?”^(A) Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.

¹⁵ In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath.^(A) Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers!^(A) Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?^(B)

⁴ for John had been saying to him: “It is not lawful for you to have her.”^(A)

¹¹ Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,^(A) but rather expose them.