Words of Jesus: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers

After entering Jerusalem with a donkey, Jesus preached the Kingdom of Heaven, the dominion or empire of God's perfections, to the common and simple people, and among his spiritual teachings, he condemned the scribes and Pharisees, because they were his most determined enemies.
Jesus puts the scribes and Pharisees as an example of misfortune, as an example of a life full of sins and masks. With this, Jesus did not want to impose fear or terror among his listeners, but to warn that men should avoid the path of error and approach that eternal and luminous wisdom that leads men to life and the true happiness.
We have to understand a very simple matter, the doctrine of the Kingdom of God is actually the continuation, or the expression in other terms, of the teachings of the sapiential books such as Psalms, Proverbs, Wisdom, and Ben Sira. The ancient sages left us their most excellent teachings about the most perfect science.
And the sapiential books teach us a very simple principle, the conduct of man is subject to universal ethical laws, for example, the law of sowing and reaping: "For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 8:7, and in this context, the error has punishments, and the assertiveness prizes. And this was what Jesus taught us when he exposed the plan of God in the Sermon on the Mount.
With these wise words, Jesus warned his followers not to follow the path of his enemies:
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation" Matthew 23:13-14.

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