Pharisee's Misuse of Scripture to Justify His Own Sin

Pharisaism handles the Scripture in such a way so as to justify the Pharisee's own sin. We saw this last week in the account of the Good Samaritan when the lawyer was said to be "seeking to justify himself: when he wanted a definition of "neighbor" that would suit him. Today we consider a few excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount and see some examples of this Pharisaical twisting of God's Word.