“And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions” (Matt. 22:46). Having established the inability of the Jewish religious leadership to answer Jesus’s questions, Jesus launches a lengthy, scathing critique of the scribes and Pharisees (Matt. 23:1–39; Mark 12:38–40; Luke 20:45–47). He warns the crowds against those “hypocrites” and “blind guides” and pronounces seven woes of judgment against them. This full-scale verbal assault against the
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