‘On the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins.’ ( Matthew 23:28 )

Jesus used the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector to explain the difference between hypocrisy and sincere contrition:

‘Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.

“The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else.  I thank you that I am not like the tax collector over there.  I fast two days a week, and I give you a tenth of all my income.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’ I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home.  For everyone who makes himself great will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be made great.” ( Luke 18: 10–14 )

The Pharisee was a model Judaist in front of the public, but the fact that he liked to judge other people had distanced himself from God.

Please listen to Jesus’ advice:
‘Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you in the same way as you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others.  Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, and pay no attention to the log in your own eye?  How dare you say to your brother, ‘Please, let me take that speck out of your eye? Your hypocrite!  First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.’ ( Matthew 7: 1–5 )

The greatest weakness of hypocrisy is failing to see our own weakness.  When we judge other people, we seem to say, ‘I am better than you!’  Is it true?