Let the alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."There's an old Southern saying, "you can't fix stupid." A kinder way of putting it would be that trying to change someone set in their ways is an exercise in futility. Unless someone is open to considering new evidence, you're not going to accomplish anything.
In this case, the Pharisees had set the rules, and to their advantage. They'd taken the original Law and built extra rules around it, with the occasional little tweak to help them out. Now they'd fallen in love with their own power, and were unwilling to consider the possibility that they had been wrong.
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