rectitude of some sort, of properly observing the “do’s and don’ts.” This provides yet another opportunity to disabuse members of that serious but very common error. Juxtaposing the opening of the text and its closing, I personally am taken by the image of the “Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem” apparently to “fact find,” but more accurately to “find fault.” Instead of self-examination, of being sure that what they said they believed and what they did was consistent, they