Mattityahu (Matthew) Chapter 23

In Mattityahu (Matthew) Chapter 23 Yeshua (Jesus) exposes the hypocrisy of the P'rushim (Pharisees) and Torah-teachers (scribes) as He is speaking in the Temple. That although they sit in the seat of Moshe (Moses), they hypocritically talk without acting. They loved their outward expressions of faith, their physical religious symbols, the recognition and authority of their office, and the privileges it provided them, but they were like "whitewashed tombs," clean and orderly on the outside but full of death and rot on the inside. They were blind guides, leading Isra'el astray, the traditions of men they taught made each proselyte more worthy of Gei-Hinnom (Gehena/Hell) than themselves. They hyper-fixated on the miniscule laws, like the tithing of herbs, but ignored what truly matters in God's own eyes, things like justice, mercy, and trust. He revealed them to be worthy descendants of their predecessors who had murdered the prophets, and would indeed murder the prophets, sages, and scribes that He would send them. He lamented Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), whose children He had sought after to gather under His wing like a hen with her chicks, but they had refused. He then proclaimed that God was abandoning their house, that is the Temple, and leaving it desolate. Announcing that they would not see Him again until they said, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai," and leaving the Temple.