This week we break up A.B. Bruce’s chapter 20 into two parts. This first part Jesus is here again calling out the Pharisees for their hypocrisy. Before this event Jesus had what we would call petty fights with them, and Jesus had been uniformly victorious. In our text today five times Jesus wins the arguments, from Matthew chapter 21-22. Then in Matthew 23 the Pharisee’s hypocrisy is explicitly called out. 7 woes are said by Jesus an attack not just to get the religious leaders but as a teaching moment for all. Jesus ends these woes with the phrase O Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, and all the emotion built up in his love for the people. Jesus can look into the future and see the destruction of the city and the lives lost and he can see his death on the cross.

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