Actually you are incorrect Jesus never condemned the Pharasiees for their outward righteousness rather for requirering it and not doing it themselves. Secondly He condemned them them for makeing the outside clean but not dealing with he inside. Thirdly Jesus condemns the Pharasiees for pride. No where does Jesus ever say the outside does not matter. Notice the following passage:
Matthew 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2 saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
3
all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe,
that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders;
but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6 and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
7 and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith:
these ought ye to have done, and
not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee,
cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter,
that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
It should be noticed that Jesus says that the people were to obey the teaching of the scribes and pharasiees. VRS. 3
Next notice that Jesus said that the pharasees should live righteously and also remember mercy and weighter matters of the law. VRS 23
Lastly you should notice that Jesus puts inside and outside purity on equal term in that He shows both are need to be clean. VRS 26
So I guess I was wrong in
Matthew 23:26 Jesus teaches that the outside should be clean.
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