358th Post Jesus On Harsh Words for the Religious System Con't. - Matthew 23: 15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
This was spoken by Jesus during His last week on earth before He was to be crucified. This is a very stern warning from Jesus to the scribes and Pharisees, but it can apply to people in our own day. The scribes and Pharisees, were the main teachers of God at the time of Jesus. Their view of God, did not match the view Jesus was teaching the people. Both messages came from God, so both messages should have been the same. Why did not this happen? The scribes and Pharisees, placed themselves above the Law, meaning it was OK for them to tell others to keep the Law, but they did not have to themselves. This is why Jesus called them Hypocrites! To understand the last part of this passage, I will explain it from a Godly position, the scribes and Pharisees did exactly the opposite. Jesus said the a student can never be greater than his teacher. The teacher teaches, but can never teach the student all he knows. The teacher has spent years studying and gives the student the benefit of that study. When the student starts to teach, he uses the knowledge already given him and builds on it, but he will never have the foundation of knowledge that his teacher has. Negatively speaking, Jesus was telling them that as they are teaching different position, that position gets further and further from the truth with each new student. If you apply your lessons on Scripture, and keep it in the context of God's Word, you will teach correctly.