Episode 15: Everything written must be fulfilled

In the gospels, Jesus had argument after argument with the Pharisees. They were respected as the interpreters of God’s Law, but their teaching had led the people away from the kind of righteousness God wanted. At the beginning of the sermon, then, Jesus has to make clear to the people that even as he challenges what the scribes and Pharisees taught, he is upholding God’s law down to the last detail.