The Key Of Knowledge

⁷"But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" (KJV)

Is this how someone would talk to a person in power?  It appears at this time the Pharisees were not in power and Judaism had not yet been established.

²⁰"For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." (KJV)

¹⁴"Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him." (KJV)

⁶"Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. " (KJV)

¹²"Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." (KJV)