The relationship between Jesus and the Pharisees was always seen as confrontational, in order to establish the understanding that it endorsed the sense of rupture between Christianity and Judaism. This work aims to study the figure of the historical Jesus in his relationship with the self-righteousness of his days, from the Gospel of Matthew and historical sources. The methodological approach will be the Jewish paradigm of the third quest for the historical Jesus, which is to recognize that Jesus was a typical first-century Jew therefore connected with their social and religious context. From an analysis of the historical and ideological developments of the party of the Pharisees, as well as their distinctive beliefs, far It will be a comparison between the teachings of Jesus with the various self-righteous beliefs, with the source, the Jewish theological writings transiting in the first century and the Gospel of Matthew, applying to them the criterion of historical criticism hermeneutics.
