“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.” Matthew 23:13 Pharisees in the Bible were a religious group who strictly followed the laws of Moses. They believed that memorizing and following the rules made them worthy to instantaneously wipe away all of their sins and make them better than everyone else. They looked down