Are You A Murderer?

The Pharisees, along with their scholarly wing, the scribes, were the theological ultra-conservatives. Jesus declared that their nit-picking man-made rules completely missed the point of how to be righteous. The summary of the introduction to this sermon and the theme verse is:

Matthew 5:20: For I say to you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.

1. The issue of anger (21-22)
2. The implications of the law (23-26)