"Even when He threw out the money-changers in the temple, he didn’t just denounce them but then explained why He did it. When the Pharisees and the Sadduccees tried to trip up the Savior with their questions, what was His usual response? He cited the scriptures and explained the point of doctrine in question."
That would include the time that he called the Pharisees and the Sadduccees vipers and whited sepulchers. Matthew 23:33:
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
But that is one verse in a chapter that is 39 verses long. He uses the example of the duplicity of the Pharisees and the Sadduccees to teach, not just denounce. Here are a few of the verses that preceed verse 33:
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matthew 23:24-33
He denounces and then teaches. Denunciation in and of itself is worthless if it isn't followed up with teaching. In the Doctrine and Covenants it states:
"41 No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned;
42 By kindness, and pure knowledge, which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and without guile—
43 Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy;
Doctrine and Covenants 121: 41-43
Sharpness may be needed from time to time and Christ was certainly sharp in Matthew 23, but never was "sharp" with anyone without using "persuasion...long-suffering... gentleness and meekness, and love unfeigned." The Gospel can not be spread by any other means.
he didn’t just denounce them but then explained why He did it.
That would include the time that he called the Pharisees and the Sadduccees vipers and whited sepulchers. Matthew 23:33:
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vipers and whited sepulchres would not have needed explaining in those days...
nor now...
Who is Jesus teaching - not the scribes and pharisees, but his followers and disciples. The scibes and pharisees received no teaching from Jesus in this chapter. Read a little more reggie to get the context.
Whereas our REFORMED Gospel® CAN be spread by secret Temple Rites®.
--MormonDude(And, if ANY of you GENTILES even DARE to POST them; WE have the POWER to get them removed!!*)
*they're NON-scriptural you see...