It's the same people. Same symbolism, same words, same depraved playbook. Half of the Old Testament is about the Jews falling into temple prostitution, child sacrifice, and idol worship. Just like today when they are leading the charge for homosexuality/pornography/transgenderism, abortion, and materialism.

Jesus talks to the Pharisees like they are a bunch of child molester cannibals. You would not call someone who has a slightly different perspective on piety a brood of vipers, or empty whitewashed tombs full of bones, or say that if you lead a child astray, you should have a millstone tied around your neck and be thrown into the sea. He literally calls them children of satan. Are these people who just focus on the physical manifestation of holiness and ignore the spiritual manners, or are they exactly the same as their ancestors in Israel and Judah? What we see today are their spiritual and literal descendants doing exactly the same things.

Read the Talmud someday. It's almost exactly the spiritual opposite of the New Testament. Instead of love your neighbor, it recommends cheating, stealing, and lying to them. Instead of turning the other cheek, it takes Moses killing the Egyptian who struck another Jew as a guide for life. They say that young childrens' virginity is ever restoring, and that having sex with gentiles is like having sex with animals. The Talmud describes 8 genders- do you think that this insane new Transgender theory popped out of thin air? "There is nothing new under the sun." -Ecclesiastes 1:9.