Jesus speaks of the law and the prophets, a reference to the entirety of the Hebrew Scriptures.  Jesus completes the Law's purpose, revealing its true intent and bringing it to its intended goal, rather than nullifying it. With varied examples throughout the Gospel text, Jesus brings out the true meaning of the laws in the Old Testament, calling His disciples and us to a higher standard than that of the scribes and Pharisees. External conformity to these laws isn’t enough. They must be interiorized so that it penetrates one’s heart and leads one to live in accordance with God’s ultimate intentions in the law. Jesus brings the law and the prophets to its fulfillment in His teaching by showing the kind of life that the law ultimately led to. He fulfills the law and the prophets through His life, death and resurrection as Matthew’s fulfillment quotations indicate. The question that we must ponder is this: “Will we allow Him to teach us how to live as God wants us to?”