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Context is everything....in Matthew 23, Jesus was condemning the fake teachers/pharisees and those who were trying to keep their mortal selves important/relevant by sticking to the Law - later down the road they and those who followed their thinking were berated for having fallen from Grace:

Galatians 5:4 - You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

In Luke 16, Lazarus was poor and "longing to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. The rich guy showed no charity.

Also, remember that while Jesus was [reaching what would come in the New Covenant that God had promised, He was also living under the Old Covenant and much of what He said was in conformance to the Covenant He lived under - and He also had to be the only Man to walk the Earth without breaking the Old Covenant.

John gave us baptism and he told us: "Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world"..... John 1:29, 36

Was he a loony-toon except for the baptism part?

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The rich guy showed no charity.

But I thought you said,"We are saved by God’s grace and grace alone...

But now you're contradicting yourself by throwing in "charity", i.e. "works". You can't cherry-pick the bible to your own liking.