Jesus consistently prioritized people over His own religion...including its doctrines and practices and laws and traditions. The religious leaders...who considered themselves to be godly ‘because’ they abided by the doctrines and practices and laws and traditions...prioritized religion.
Actually this isn’t quite accurate.
Jesus consistently showed that the religious leaders cynically manipulated doctrines and practices to shift goal posts in their favor. In doing so they acted as gods unto themselves rewriting His law and deceiving themselves into believing they were righteous when they weren’t. The law was written to reveal to us our sin and inability to be saved apart from grace and by their redefinition were deluded.
Christ Himself, however, observed His religion perfectly because His law keeping was centered around the letter and spirit of the law. He never violated Gods law but pointed out how Pharisees had perverted it even as they claimed to protect it.
