Justice of the scribes.

Jesus says this: “Unless your righteousness is greater than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
So let’s ask ourselves the question: “What did Jesus mean by this?” What is Jesus’ “greater” righteousness, or in another translation, “more significant” righteousness? To answer this question, let’s look a little at how the Pharisees understood justice. They thought that by the outward fulfillment of all the commandments and regulations they would stand before God, that is, that they would be righteous based on fulfilled duty. That is why they called the Pharisees “justified”. According to Jewish dogmatic, there was a certain agreement between God and man. According to her, God, as a merchant, should have consistently written down for each person what he received and what he has to give. God and man stand side by side as equal business partners. And therefore, all the good deeds that a person performs will be written down by God “based on the purchase-legal relationship between himself and the person as a claim of the person”. As you’re to me, so I to you. If you, man, will perform good deeds, you will get plus, you will be healthy, you will acquire money, and you will be blessed! If you don’t do anything well, you will get a minus, you will get sick, misfortune will overtake you, you will become poor, you will not get blessings! Such was the opinion of the synagogue. They made God a merchant, a business partner. Justice based on “blasphemy of God”. How terrible was this religion! Jesus tries to throw away such justice and tear it out of a person’s heart like a poisonous root. Therefore, he tells the disciples that unless their righteousness is completely different, much greater than the righteousness of the Pharisees, they will not enter the kingdom of heaven. These words of Jesus were true, but also terrible for the Pharisees and other listeners because they changed everything. And in the closing words of the Sermon on the Mount, says this: “When Jesus had finished these words, the multitudes marveled at his teaching.” They were deeply shaken by the