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Yep. The context of when those verses were given. (Hint: It was before Christ fulfilled the law.)

Do you mean that we can disregard everything Jesus said before the Crucifixion and Resurrection?

I suppose that could be what Jesus meant. However, it seems more likely to me that he meant exactly what he said: to obtain eternal life, we must obey the commandments, give up the things of the world, take up the cross and follow him.

Do you mean that we can disregard everything Jesus said before the Crucifixion and Resurrection?

Is that what I said? Nope. I said you need to read in context. Try these verses...

Gal 3:19-29 ¶ Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one, but God is one.

[Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

¶ For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

to obtain eternal life, we must obey the commandments..

John 3:14-16 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Notice the context given in verse 14 which ushers in the new covenant in Christ. If you can obtain eternal life through the law then Christ came in vain.

Gal 2:20-21 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Sincerely