Jim West wrote: "Yet the genitive indicates "the scribes OF the pharisees"- i.e., the lawyers who happened to be adherents of the Pharisaic persuasion." IMO, TWN GRAMMATEWN KAI FARISAIWN means "of the scribes AND (of the) Pharisees. If what Jim West said is right, what are we supposed to do with KAI then? Alexander.