There are two types of agreement
One is emotional agreement
And one is social agreement
What God is trying to show us in this biblical passage is that the superior morals of the pharisees over the tax collectors and prostitutes was more an act of social conformity than it was an act of conscience
Those who have the courage to socially deviate from the pact are more likely to cultivate authentic emotional agreement with Gods word
Than those who hide their disagreements with God for social reasons
This is why the pharisees were no more ethical than the prostitutes and tax collectors
They did things out of their vanity and social conformity
And not out of their desire to glorify God or serve Him
Here Jesus high lights both the danger of self vanity and also the obscenity of moral vanity
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