There is no way for us to see what the Pharisees were doing so we can not judge what they were thinking by those actions. We have only God's Word to go by.
And Jesus Himself described pretty clearly in Matthew 23 ("God's Word") what the Pharisees were doing (how they behaved), and it's not a stretch to tell how they thought either, based upon their actions (behavior).
It's pretty clear where I was coming from when I posted to you what I did about the Pharisees. It's no different than if, for example, someone acts like they're better than everyone else, for an observer of that behavior to make the comment that "they think they're better than everyone else". Most everybody who had seen that persons behavior, or even read about it, would understand the comment that the observer made. But only a Pharisee would split hairs over it. It's disingenuous to the Nth degree.
What's in our hearts...good or bad...is eventually translated into words and deeds.
