Indeed!
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? (Matthew 23:13-17 KJV)
LOL... Ah, how we love to assert:
Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions. 1 Timothy 1:6,7.
And how many electrons do we sacrifice at that altar...LOL!
And dear RM has to be there to make sure we don't use brickbats in the process!
What was that quote all about?
Just a reminder for us all --that was the Lord Jesus speaking--Who knew the hearts of men. We mortals are not in that same league at all. We can't read the hearts of others and we are not the living God who can say what He wishes to the sleek and the proud.
So I don't see that He asked us to imitate him in this particular passage. Rather, at other times He admonished us not to judge one another, because we cannot read hearts and minds and we are not the God who can catch out the proud and arrogant and call them on it publicly..