Impossible Burden (21)

Jesus confronted the teachers of the law and the Pharisees for placing an impossible burden upon the people.

Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. "Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without knowing it."
And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering (Luke 11:43-46,52).

They had taken the ten commandments and converted them into about 600 rules and regulation. Jesus called them blind fools and hypocrites.

The modern state has turned the ten commands into thousands of laws and regulations. They are so many and so complicated that even the judges and parliamentarians do not understand them all. Jesus would have called them similar names.

Politicians are the modern pharisees.