"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
The paradox of knowing the Scriptures and yet not knowing them still exists; and it is therefore imperative for all men to take heed to know the word of the Lord truly.  Knowing the common traditions with reference to it is not enough.  Simply knowing what is written without believing cannot avail.  Familiarity with sacred words may exist in a foul and degenerate heart.  Those people to whom Jesus spoke these teachings had perverted their knowledge of the word of God in such a manner as to remove all true knowledge of it.  And how had they done so?