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The Third Woe

The third woe was a deadly accusation against their making of converts, they "scoured land and sea, with great partisan zeal, to make a single proselyte" to Pharisaism. The aim was not to bring men into the Kingdom, but into their own sect of Pharisaism, and the ultimate end was to enrich their own treasury by the addition of wealthy proselytes, like the centurion of Capernaum. Such a proselyte, they made a twofold more member than themselves and a veritable son of Gehenna "the more converted the more perverted, fixed and prepared for hell."