** Does your practice match your talk?**
Jesus scolds the scribes and Pharisees, the religious leaders of the Jews, for their showy practices.
- In a way they wanted to be good models of observant Jews.
- See how well we observe all the ritual rules and regulations of our religion!
- In their misguided zeal for religion they sought respect and honor for themselves rather than for God and for his word.
- They wanted the people to treat them as great teachers and rulers.
