Finishing chapter 23 of Matthew in our "Biography of the King", Jesus saves his strongest words of correction for the religious elite of his day. The eight "woes" he proclaims against the Pharisees reveal their wicked hearts and hypocrisy to do so well at their ritual and outward experience while being dead on the inside. Yet Jesus is not so much angry as he is sorrowful as he would have gathered them together as a mother hen gathers her chicks--but they were not willing.