Thursday's Text: Matthew 6 v 1
"Beware of practising your piety
before others
in order to be seen by them;
for then you have no reward
from your Father in heaven."
This sentence opens a new section,
the teaching of which it sums up.
Jesus has set out a righteousness
that is greater than the scribes'
& he now sets out a greater piety.
In both sections the "greater" comes
through being deep within one's life.