Whats the difference between the Pharisees and the Sadducees in the bible?

Answer 1

The Pharisees were the strictest religious sect of the Jews.

Paul in Acts 26:5 says this regarding himself in the past...
" Since they have previously know about me from the first if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived as a Pharisee"

This sect was formed about 200 B.C. They were proud of their superior religious living, devotion to God , and knowledge of the Scriptures. Actually. they had degraded into pretension and hypocrisy.
If you are interested check Matthew 23:2-33.

The Sadducees were another sect within Judaism.

We see this in Acts 5:17
"And the high priest and all those with him, the local sect of the Sadducees, rose up and were filled with jealousy"

They did not believe in the resurrection, in angels, or in spirits. ( Matthew 22:23 and Acts 23:8 show this)
Both the Pharisees and Sadducees were denounced as a brood of Vipers by John the Baptist adn the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus warned His disciples against their doctrines.

The Pharicees were considered Orthodox whereas the Sadducees were the ancient modernists

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Answer 2

They were different religious/political groups.

The Pharisees were the "newer" of the two, accepted all the books found in the Protestant Old Testament as scripture, and had a very strict interpretation of the Mosaic Law. To the 614 laws on the Old Testament they had added thousands more to clarify and detail exactly how to obey each of them.

Following the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, and the exile of the Jews from Israel, the Pharisees would compile a volume knows as the Talmud ("Traditions") that would preserve their history and interpretation of the law. It would become part of Jewish "scripture", and would influence the Jewish religion from that time forward. The Pharisees would become the strict Orthodox Jews of today.

The Sudducees were an older group which claimed to trace its origin back to the sons of Koseh, who were the musicians and singers for the Temple from the time of King David. The were more liberal in their beliefs, and only excepted the "writings of Moses" as scripture. Those are the first five books of the Old Testament.

Because there is no mention of a resurrection, eternal life, or a "heaven" (beyond the sky being called "heaven"), the Sadducees did not believe in an "afterlife". They had a much less literal and strict interpretation of the Mosaic Laws. Following the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, they disappear from history.

You will find an incident in Acts 23 where Paul has been arrest and is being tried by the Jewish leaders. He realizes that the group is a mixture of Pharisees and Sadducees, so he immediately announces that he is being tried because he believes in a resurrection (that of Jesus). At once the Sadducees argued against Paul, but the Pharisees began to support him. Results was a "hung jury", and they were unable to convict Paul.

Answer 3

Both are sects of Judaism that existed from about 200 BC until 70 AD.

Pharisee comes from a Hebrew word meaning separate; they saw a denegration/degeneration in Jewish worship about the time of the Greek occupation after Alexander the Great, by those who would become the Hellenistic Jews. They sought to revitalize Jewish worship and sanctitiy, and practiced more rigid observation of the Torah (Law of Moses). The Pharisee beliefs included angels and resurrection (Acts 23:5)

The Saducees were the sect that controlled the Temple during the Roman period. They claimed to be students of the Pirest Zadok (King David's reign), and called themselves Zadokites. They were often considered the aristocrats of the Jewish people, predominantly being wealthy and having control of offices such as High Priest. They did not beleive in a soul, resurrection, or angels.

The Saducees ceased to exist after 70 AD. The Pharisees continued on, in the schools of Rabbinical Judaism that are today the basis of Judaism.

There are other sects of Judaism from the same period, including:

The Zealots (recall Masada)
The Essenes (the dead sea scrolls)
The Hellenists (Greek cultured Jews)
The Herodians (Roman cultured Jews)

Answer 4

Jewish religious leaders known as the Pharisees . They were very proud of the fact that they were observing the law of Moses, but they were uncaring and even cruel to their neighbors and even their families.


The Sadducees were Jewish religious leaders who were from the wealthy familiesThis group did not believe that people would be resurrected, or raised from the dead. They also did not believe that angels existed.

Answer 5

The Pharisees made up a lot of rules about the law to be fair-you-see.

Answer 6

Pharisees believed in the ressurrection....and Sadducees didn't...so they were SAD-You-see.