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Then he says this. He says, unless your righteousness exceeds those of the pharisees and the scribes. These are the people who practice God's old testament law the best. Unless your righteousness exceeds theirs, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Ouch. Ouch. This is before he goes on to do the whole sermon. What's going on? What's going on is that Jesus is already starting to raise the bar for what good looks like in terms of righteousness Which is a term which means kind of being right with God or being clean in front of God.