Today we read in St Matthew’s Gospel a criticism of the religious leaders of Jesus’ time, the Pharisees, for not practicing what they preached. The inference was that people should heed what the Pharisees say, but don’t do what they do.
Last week the religious leaders endeavoured to use the issue of paying taxes to Caesar as means of demonstrating that Jesus was an unfaithful Jew. Their attempt failed. In today’s story, knowing there are ten commandments in the law of Moses, the Jewish
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