SADDUCEES,SCRIBES,PHARISEES SADDUCEES CHRIST CAUTIONED AGAINST THEIR PRINCIPLES MAT 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. MAT 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake {it} not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? MAT 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade {them} not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. CHRIST SILENCED MAT 22:34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. CHRIST TEMPTED BY MAT 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. CHRIST VINDICATED THE RESURECTION AGAINST MAT 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if {it were} possible, they shall deceive the very elect. MAT 24:25 Behold, I have told you before. MAT 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, {he is} in the secret chambers; believe {it} not. MAT 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. MAT 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. P.3 MAT 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: MAT 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. MAT 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. MAT 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer {is} nigh: MAR 12:19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave {his} wife {behind him}, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. MAR 12:20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. MAR 12:21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. MAR 12:22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also. MAR 12:23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife. MAR 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? MAR 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. MAR 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I {am} the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? MAR 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. P.4 THEY DENIED THE RESURECTION AND A FUTURE STATE MAT 22:23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, LUK 20:27 Then came to {him} certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, THEY PERSECUTED THE EARLY CHRISTIANS ACT 4:1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, ACT 5:17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, ACT 5:18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. THEY REFUSED THE BAPTISM BY JOHN MAT 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? THE RESURECTION A CAUSE OF DISPUTE BETWEEN THEM AND THE PHARISEES ACT 23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men {and} brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. ACT 23:7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. ACT 23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. ACT 23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes {that were} of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God. P.5 A SECT OF THE JEWS ACT 5:17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, ****************************************** SCRIBES ACTED AS KEEPERS OF THE MUSTER ROLL OF THE HOST 2KI 25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land {that were} found in the city: 2CH 26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, {one} of the king's captains. JER 52:25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. ACTED AS NOTARIES IN COURTS OF JUSTICE JER 32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, {both} that which was sealed {according} to the law and custom, and that which was open: JER 32:12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's {son}, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. ACTED AS RELIGIOUS TEACHERS NEH 2:6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. P.6 ACTED AS SECRETARIES TO KINGS 2SA 8:17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, {were} the priests; and Seraiah {was} the scribe; 2SA 20:25 And Sheva {was} scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar {were} the priests: 2KI 12:10 And it was {so}, when they saw that {there was} much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord. EST 3:12 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that {were} over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and {to} every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring. ACTED AS SECRETARIES TO PROFITS JER 36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. JER 4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place {was} a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, {and} by his fierce anger. ACTED AS WRITERS OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 1CH 24:6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, {one} of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and {before} the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and {one} taken for Ithamar. ANTIQUITY OF JOB 5:14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. P.7 GENERALLY MEN OF GREAT WISDOM 1CH 27:32 Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counseller, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni {was} with the king's sons: LUUSUTRATIVE OF WELL INSTRUCTED MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL MAT 13:52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe {which is} instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man {that is} an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure {things} new and old. ACTIVE IN PROCURING THE LORDS DEATH MAT 26:3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, LUK 23:10 And the chief pri TT126  6C¯ZE Ï Ä6 PLEASE TAKE A MINUETE TO LEARN ABOUT, "YESHUA WAY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES" WE ARE A NOT FOR PROFIT MINISTRY WE GET OUR NAME FROM THE HEBREW FOR JESUS THE MESSIAH, YESHUA HA MASHIACH WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE TO BE THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD AVAILABLE TO US AT THIS TIME. WE BELIEVE THERE IS NOTHING HID THAT WILL NOT BE KNOWN. WE BELIEVE JESUS IS THE WORD OF GOD, HE IS2 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. WERE FREQUENTLY PHARISEES ACT 23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes {that were} of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God. WORE LONG ROBES AND LOVED PRE-EMINENCE MAR 12:38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and {love} salutations in the marketplaces, MAR 12:39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: OFTEN WERE LEARNED IN THE LAW EZR 7:6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he {was} a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him. WERE READY WRITERS PSA 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue {is} the pen of a ready writer. P.10 ***************************************** PHARISEES AS A BODY REJECTED THE BAPTISM OF JOHN LUK 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. BELIEVED IN THE RESURECTION, ETC. ACT 23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. BY DESCENT ESPECIALLY ESTEEMED ACT 23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men {and} brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. CHARACTER OF: ACTIVE IN PROSELTTIZING *** BRINGING IN NEW CONVERTS *** MAT 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. CHARACTER OF:AMBITIOUS OF PRECEDENCE *** AN ACT THAT CAN BE USED AS AN EXAMPLE *** MAT 23:6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, CHARACTER OF:AVARICIOUS *** FOND OF ACCUMULATING WEALTH *** MAT 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. LUK 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. P.11 CHARACTER OF:CRUEL IN PERSECUTING ACT 9:1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, ACT 9:2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. FOND OF DISTINGUISHED TITLES MAT 23:7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. MAT 23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, {even} Christ; and all ye are brethren. MAT 23:9 And call no {man} your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. MAT 23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, {even} Christ. FOND OF PUBLIC SALUTATIONS MAT 23:7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. OUTWARDLY MORAL LUK 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men {are}, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. PHI 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, {of} the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; PHI 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. OPPRESSIVE MAT 23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay {them} on men's shoulders; but they {themselves} will not move them with one of their fingers. P.12 PARTICULAR IN PAYING ALL DUES MAT 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier {matters} of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. RIGID IN FASTING LUK 5:33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise {the disciples} of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? LUK 18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. SELF-RIGHTEOUS LUK 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. LUK 18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. ZEALOUS OF THE LAW ACT 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command {them} to keep the law of Moses. PHI 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, {of} the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; ZEALOUS OF TRADITION MAR 7:3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash {their} hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. MAR 7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? P.13 MAR 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with {their} lips, but their heart is far from me. MAR 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching {for} doctrines the commandments of men. MAR 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, {as} the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. GAL 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. CHRIST ASKED FOR SIGNS BY MAT 12:38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. MAT 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. CHRIST CALLED AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION MAT 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: CHRIST CALLED FOOLS AND BLIND GUIDES MAT 23:17 {Ye} fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? MAT 23:24 {Ye} blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. CHRIST SERPENTS AND GENERATION OF VIPERS MAT 23:33 {Ye} serpents, {ye} generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? P.14 CHRIST COMPARED TO GRAVES THAT APPEAR NOT LUK 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over {them} are not aware {of them}. COMPARED TO WHITE SEPULCHERS MAT 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead {men's} bones, and of all uncleanness. CHRIST CONDEMED BY, FOR ASSOICIATING WITH SINNERS MAT 9:11 And when the Pharisees saw {it}, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? LUK 7:39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw {it}, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman {this is} that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. LUK 15:1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. LUK 15:2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. CHRIST DECLARED THE DOCTRINES OF, TO BE HYPOCRISY MAT 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. MAT 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake {it} not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? MAT 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade {them} not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. P.15 LUK 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. CHRIST DECLARED THE IMADINARY RIGHTEOUSNESS OF, TO BE INSUFFICENT FOR SALVATION MAT 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed {the righteousness} of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. CHRIST DENOUNCED WOES AGAINST MAT 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in {yourselves}, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. OFFENDED BY HIS DOCTRINE MAT 15:12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? MAT 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. LUK 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. OFTEN INVITED BY LUK 7:36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. LUK 11:37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. CHRIST TEMPTED BY, WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LAW MAT 19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? P.16 MAT 22:15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in {his} talk. MAT 22:16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any {man}: for thou regardest not the person of men. MAT 22:35 Then one of them, {which was} a lawyer, asked {him a question}, tempting him, and saying, CHRIST WATCHED BY, FOR EVIL LUK 6:7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. THEY HAD DISCIPLES LUK 5:33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise {the disciples} of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? ACT 22:3 I am verily a man {which am} a Jew, born in Tarsus, {a city} in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, {and} taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. THEY IMPUTED CHRIST'S MIRACLES TO SATAN'S POWER MAT 9:34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils. MAT 12:24 But when the Pharisees heard {it}, they said, This {fellow} doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. MADE BROAD THEIR PHYLACTERIES, ETC. *** EITHER OF TWO SMALL LEATHER BOXES, EACH CONTAINING STRIPS OF PARCHMENT INSCRIBED WITH QUOTATIONS FROM THE SCRIPTURES. ONE IS STRAPPED TO THE FOREHEAD THE OTHER TO THE LEFT ARM. *** MAT 23:5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, P.17 MANY PRIESTS AND LEVITES JOH 1:19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? JOH 1:24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. MANY RULERS, LAWERS, AND SCRIBES JOH 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: ACT 5:34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; ACT 23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes {that were} of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God. OFTEN SOUGHT TO DESTROY CHRIST MAT 12:14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. MAT 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. JOH 11:47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. JOH 11:53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death. JOH 11:54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples. JOH 11:55 And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves. JOH 11:56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast? P.18 JOH 11:57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew {it}, that they might take him. SENT OFFICERS TO APPREHEND CHRIST JOH 7:32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. JOH 7:45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? SOME CAME TO JOHN FOR BAPTISM MAT 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? STRICTEST OBSERVERS OF THE MOSAIC RITUAL ACT 26:5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. THEIR OPINIONS STANDARD TO OTHERS JOH 7:48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?