Today's lesson contrasts the difference between pride & humility as exhibited by the Pharisees and those who were not. The Lord is giving us examples of man's inability to follow the rules which not only God had made but which the religious leaders made to explain the Law.

I also starts to also reveal who the disciples thought Jesus to be and who Jesus Himself revealed Himself to be. This will be a good lesson to remember because what Jesus claimed Himself to be is the central theme in Scripture.