Some modern day Pharisees care more about the rules than they care about the people for whom the rules were made.
And then there are some who care about both out of love for the Creator/Lawgiver. I’d suggest that not caring about the rules is equally dangerous to not caring for whom the rules were made, as God’s rules are given for the benefit of those He loves.
Hmmm...Jesus clearly sees it differently than you do. One day, on the Sabbath, Jesus and His disciples were going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, His disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to Him, “why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” Jesus reminded them that when David and his companions were hungry, they entered the Temple and ate the bread of the Presence, which wasn’t lawful for anyone but the priests to eat. And then Jesus reminded them that the Sabbath was made for man, ‘not’ man for the Sabbath. Another time a man with a shriveled hand was present where Jesus was, on the Sabbath. And the Pharisees were watching to see if Jesus would heal him on the Sabbath...since it was against the rules. And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it...?” But they wouldn’t answer Him. And He looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ‘That’ pissed off the Pharisees. They clearly weren’t doing ‘anything’ out of love for the Creator/Lawgiver ‘or’ those people for whom the rules were made. And Jesus Himself pointed that out to them.
