 Keep in mind who he was talking to here. He was talking to the Pharisees. He was talking to the folks who thought they were good enough. He was talking to the folks that if you talk to them about spiritual things, don't worry about me, I'm okay. They would even have a list of things that they recite to you and would say, I do this, I do this, I do this. Jesus had not come for the self-righteous. He had come for those people who recognized they were spiritually sick.