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{{quote|''"Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone."''}}
* [[Calling the Hero Out]]: [[Inverted Trope|They were not really heroes,]] they only [[Knight Templar|claimed]] to be, but the Pharisees made the temple into a den of thieves and Jesus rebuked them for this.
* [[Dramatically Missing the Point|Completely Missing the Point]]: See quote. They followed the ceremonies of the law to a T, but they completely over looked the more important spirit of the law.
* [[God Never Said That]]: God gave a number of general rules, but by Jesus' time these had been analyzed and quantified into strict rules by the Pharisees. When the Pharisees tried to call Jesus on his "rulebreaking", He often explained that they had over analyzed the letter of the law and missed the spirit completely. For example, the Pharisees said He violated the Sabbath's ban on work by healing someone; He explained that while the Sabbath is a day of rest it's never against God's law to help a person or show mercy on them (See Matthew 12).
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: "If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent."
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