The Inordinate Ambition of the Pharisees.
Hypocrisy in high places:
Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:1
Matthew 23:1-4
1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2 Saying,The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.#rl