For I say unto you] Whatsoever the scribes say unto you, if ye will believe me, it is otherwise. your righteousnesse] Your obedience to Gods law. shall exceed the righteousnesse of the scribes and Pharisees] The one sort were accounted men of the greatest learning, the other of the strictest life. See chap. 15. 1. ye must go beyond them both; for they make conscience of outward obedience onely, v. 21. and of some commandments onely, chap. 15. 3. but ye must make conscience of inward obedience, v. 22. and of keeping all the commandments, Luke 1:6. in no case enter, &c.] As chap. 7. 21. and 18. 3. and 19. 23, 24. Mark 10:23-24. Luke 18:24-25. John 3:5. Acts 14:22. alluding to Numbers 14:30. Psalms 95:11.