Episode 16: How righteous is righteous?
Before Jesus could teach the true nature of righteousness, he had to reassure his hearers that his teaching upheld God’s law—and he expected his hearers to be obedient to the Law as well. In a way that must have been shocking to his hearers, he declared that they wouldn’t get into the kingdom unless they were more righteous than the scribes and Pharisees. But what does that mean?
