Straining at Gnats and Swallowing Camels

I had new insight into this verse: Matthew 23:24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Here Christ is taking the pharisees to task for their hypocrisy over their observation of the law.
Lev 11:20 'All flying insects that creep on [all] fours [shall be] an abomination to you.
Lev 11:4 Nevertheless these you shall not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have cloven hooves: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;

Both species are unclean under the law, but Christ was using a metaphor to show that the pharisees were meticulously observing the minor details of the law, while ignoring the greater matters of the law. Strain out a gnat speaks to the kosher observance of straining water to make it kosher. Later in the chapter, Jesus shows that the "camel" was metaphor for their willingness to murder the prophets, breaking the second greatest commandment (to love one's neighbor as one's self).

For Christians there are obvious parallels in this we too, even though we are not under the law, get caught up in things that are not important to the detriment of things that are.