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The only caricature of an ordinary priest per se is offered indirectly in the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30ff.).
Otherwise the Woes are explicitly pronounced on Chorazin, Bethsaida, the world, the scribes, the Pharisees, the teachers of the ignorant, those with child or nursing at the end of the world, the betrayer of the Son of Man, the rich, the full, the laughers, the respected, the lawyers, but never the priests.
This is consistent with Jesus' high view of the temple and its functionaries, however they may have fallen short of the righteousness which Jesus thinks was appropriate to it.
