I hope the person that made this video actually gets this. I would like to say how thankful I am that someone can explain the Bible in such an easy to understand why. God bless you
Quick way to remember the difference (trigger warning: dad joke) The Sadducess did not believe in the resurrection, that's why they were sad, you see. Sorry, couldn't help it.
Wow.. I was looking to get a clear meaning of what the Pharisees and Sadducees had in common and their differences and this has helped. Far more than I thought. Thank you so much for this
When you compared them to Republicans and Democrats, it reminded me of Ecclesiastes 1 9What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
There's more to the story than that... The Sadducees began way back in the 400's. They were the descendants of the High Priest Zadok, of King David's time. They thought they ought to be the priests appointed by the Persians to rule Judea. So they were. But as the leaders of Judea, they were the ones who developed the most wealth and interactions with Greek culture. They became so secular that they saw all the Jewish rituals as only pertaining to the Temple. In other words, they thought all God asked was for them to do the "church" thing one day a week, and they could live as they wished the other 6 days. The Pharisee movement began about 100 years after the Sadducees began. The word "Pharisee" means "separated one." You see, among the Levites, only the sons of Aaron were to be priests. But now, there was an elite strain of priests in charge. So there were three classes of religious people... The sons of Zadok (Sadducees) 2. the rest of the priests, and 3. the rest of the Levites. The Pharisee movement was a reaction against the worldliness of the Sadducees. The movement began among the non-priests of the Levites, who were scribes and teachers of the Law in the synagogues. Thus, by the first century, the Pharisees (who believed they had oral traditions passed down from the time of Moses!) had become quite cold in heart, seeking for brownie points only by outward ritual. It was very much like the holiness movement which swept through the Eastern USA in the late 1800's, as a Wesleyan reaction against the worldliness of the very denominations which traced their heritage directly from the core of the European Reformation. History repeats itself. Strangely, Sadduceeism died out completely after there was no place for them, when Titus destroyed the Temple in 70 AD. So, Phariseeism was left as the only guiding movement among the Jews, during the disperson. Which is why Modern Judaism is actually Phariseeism in modern clothes. Which leads us to the question... is Pentecostalism (rooted in the Holiness movement of 130 years ago) as it grows by leaps and bounds worldwide, taking over christianity?
@@kenim Perhaps the more accurate concern will be, will Jesus recognize us? Will we be the ones left outside weeping and gnashing our teeth? We must continually pray and keep the Word of God in our hearts. Abide in Him and He in us.
Love when you do videos like this. The interplay between classical history and Biblical history and theology is fascinating. You should discuss the pre-Nicaea early church in more depth sometime.
Thank you! I'm so glad someone else sees this. I've started to call the Democratic & Republican parties religions as a confrontation. I believe faith in Human Government is the most widely accepted idolatry of our time. There's only one Kingdom I'm loyal to!
Contemporary normative Judaism which is rabbinical, especially Orthodox and Conservative, is a direct descendant of the Pharisees. The Sadducees have no heirs in the Jewish world There were other Jewish parties such as the Essenes, the Zealots, and the Hellenists. The Pharisees are the creators of the Talmud.
> The Sadducees have no heirs in the Jewish world They might, in the form of Karaite Judaism, depending upon how you slice and dice what the Karaites of today believe. There's only about 100,000 of them world-wide these days, but at one time they made a credible run at becoming the major form of Judaism. Among other things, they flat out reject the Talmud.
Well explained. The Sadducees disappeared but spiritually have their descendants in liberal more secular atheist Jews. But more important, history repeats itself with legalistic traditional christianity and liberal christians. Again, they will not recognize their messiah when He manifests himself.
Great explanation! I've known the kids songs growing up but never learned the difference between the two or what they really were. It makes it easier to understand now!
Excellent video. Please keep up the good work. May God be with you as you move forward. Please pray for this ministry and all the RUclips ministries laboring for the cause of God.
While you are correct, there is such a thing as artistic license and I think he used it well there to connect with the audience, particularly the younger members of the audience.
Whilst I didn’t mind the “greekicising” as it made the point very well for the listeners, it’s also good to know how it should be said properly. Thank you.
Thank you for the explanation! We just happened to discuss this last night at our bible study. May God bless your ministry... I have been enjoying your channel!
ooh and you're quick on the reply as well!! haha great stuff. i'd really like to show you my project!! there is a video called 'Introduction to IsraelAlia' in my channel or 'IsraelAlia: Exploring the Covenant' on Facebook! It's about Deut 17:8-11 which says that all controversies must be resolved by the Priests and a Judge.. this system has never been implemented once throughout history! and it is fundamental to the creation of religious law! Huge issue that has been missed throughout the generations.. would love your thoughts!! :)
You're doing an amazing job, don't matter what religion you are. The Word of God needs to be Preached. So much more work needs to be done, til God Returns!
Hi Matt, My name is Beth and I've been watching your Ten Minute Bible Hour videos for a while now. My bible study group is studying the book of Acts and your "commentary" on it has been THE BEST! I love your style of teaching, your humor, your intelligence and the way you make things so easy to understand without being condescending and the way you accept that others may not always agree.. I would like to contribute to you to help you to continue to do the Ten Minute Bible Hour but don't know how. Can you help tell me if there is a way? Also, being Ash Wednesday, I am a non-practicing Catholic, my husband is a very devote Catholic and I would love to hear your opinion on Lent if you have the time. Thanks so much for helping make studying the bible so much fun and so much easier to learn!
Thanks Beth! I'm super happy to hear that the Acts series has been fun and useful for you! I had a blast making it, and it's always encouraging to hear that others are getting something out of it as well. Some people support the program at patreon.com/TMBH. I'm very grateful for the people who do that, but I have no expectation of support, and I'm happy to offer this content for free. That said, I'm honored that you would even think about it. Also, I'm getting the distinct impression I should make a video about lent for next year :)
Great teaching Matt. It was a very confusing time but you boiled it down very succinctly. Looking at modern Judaism it would appear the Sadducees won. Have no fear, Jesus will get it all straightened out real soon.
👀 at your background, & I'm 😲 wow!, God is great, cause I'm on 3rd part of the 🎥 collection. The Jews are wearing those exact clothes I mean w/ the same 👨 playing high priest. Thanks 4 taking time & breaking this topic on a easily understood level. Remain blessed.
Loved the simplified explanation! Jesus not belonging to either side of a traditional conservative/liberal ideology set? Weird how that worked... :-P Hope you catch the sarcasm in this latter half of the comment. ;-)
Great choice for a topic, and very good execution (as usual)! I've seen the previous video so I know you're thinking about what kind of videos to do next, and I think this is a very good start, with explanations about people mentioned in the Bible and a look at their history and context, would love to see more of this.
Thanks Francesca. I've got some more fun ones coming from Italy next month. Speaking of which, are you coming to the No Dumb Questions meet up next week in Rome?
Brehhhhhh I wish I watched this video years ago. Makes so much sense and clears it up. Kinda cool how it is similar to modern day society and makes it easy to understand
Wow! Never thought of it this way :D Pharisees-Sadducees Right-Left Catholic-Protestant Conservative-Liberal God loves when people are polarized, doesn't He? :P
Except, by the standards of their own time and place, the Sadducees were actually the conservatives and the Pharisees the liberals. The Herodians would then go further to the Right of the former and the Zealots likewise to the Left of the latter.
You should check out some of Sam Aronow’s videos on how the Sanhedrin actually worked, also the Sanhedrin was wayyy older than the time period you are talking about, also jesus himself was most likely a pharisee, he was around them all the time, he also said we should listen to the pharisees but not be hypocrites and he even went as far as to say we should try to be MORE righteous than the pharisees, the Torah(the law) was actually very important to jesus and his early followers, it wasn’t until paul came along about 30-40 years later that christians started thinking that the law was no longer valid, there was even a big group of early christians known as ebionites that even went as far as to call paul a blasphemer, the ebionites ended up dying out due to persecution and the church ended up destroying their writings
Comming from someone who is Jewish, but you’re evaluation of the two groups is missing a lot of information and historical context. I would be glad to fill you in if you would be open to talking.
Thanks for your informative video as always Matt. I'm quite troubled with which party to support. It means like all parties will never truly reflect what Jesus wants for us..
Can you also do one on the whereabouts of the Covenant ? Is it really in Ethiopia ? There's also this belief it's in the bowels under the city of Jerusalem hidden there before Nebuchadnezzar's forces arrived. That should really get everyone talking.
technical point: Is it possible you changed something with the sound. First I thought it is on my side, but then I looked at a few other videos of yours and they are definitely louder.
If the Sadducees didn't believe in the resurrection, were they interested in God solely because it was a social construct for them? If they didn't believe in a resurrection what did they believe would happen when you die?
The Sadducees actually did believe in the, for lack of a better term, more primitive underworld concept of Sheol but ultimately emphasized attaining blessings for themselves, their nation and their progeny in this world. A lot of ancient religions operated in this sort of way.
I understood there was also a kind of class warfare at play between the two groups also. The Sadducees were largely from an aristocratic background and regarded themselves as "the betters" of several other groups (including the other major group, the Pharisees). As a result when the Romans crushed the Jewish rebellion, the Sadducees were seen by the Romans as a Jewish equivalent to their own Patricians (ie. the ruling class) and were disproportionately punished, contributing largely to eventual dissappearance of their form of Judeism. I believe the modern forms of Judeism (Orthodox, Conservative, Progressive/Reform etc) have evolved largely from what was left of the Pharisees and their approach to life and religion, after the persecutions of the Romans. Thanks for this video it have got me thinking. I'm interested in how things have a way of polarising and almost creating identities based on not being like the other. Do different groups start to change their identity based on how their perceived opposites (and use this term loosely here) are? Did the Pharisees and Sadducees change who they each were based on how they perceived the other group? So for example might the Pharisees have seen the Sadducees as not being pious enough so in turn they became even more pious? Or the reverse have happened with the Sadducees believing the Pharisees as being too serious and consciously become less serious so as to distance themselves from the other group? Has this happened at other times through history? It certainly would seem to my observations that a case could be made to say it has. For example, have Jews and Christians evolved the way the have because of how each perceives the other and a perceived need to distance each from the other? Have Protestants and Roman Catholics? It appears that our political systems in the West have worked to encourage this polarisation in Politics, and from what I have seen of religion, it appears similar forces often have been and likely continue to be at work. I find a useful lesson to be learnt in thinking about this - one of caution. How distorted might our political, religious, or other views be by historical polarisation based on rejecting a perceived opposing view? Sadducee/ Pharisee, Roman Catholic / Protestant, Conservative / Progressive or in any other similar division. We as humans have been prone (too often) to over-emphasisng the differences. Without a broad contextual understanding of a situation it is very easy to be attracted to a polarised view in which one side is always right and the other always wrong. Without seeing the big picture of a situation, groups that are very close to each other become enemies. Just because someone's opinion may differ to mine does not mean we need to become opposites of each other. In our world today it seems we have far too many divisions and have become more intolerant than ever. I believe we must find a way in our differences to truly tolerate these differences without enforcing one right way on everyone. Be this in religion, politics or anything which we believe matters. As yet I don't believe any of us know how, but we really must keep trying to find a way.
A good point here is that there can be two dominating schools of thought but both can easily be wrong.
Who are the sadducees? Pls answer?
@@heyszlee718 as far as video says, they are not really religious people
@@heyszlee718 Haughty liberals...
Nicholas Beck amen right there. Thank God, for Jesus, is what I gotta say.
Jesus Christ isn't the name of the messiah it's Yahshua ha'Mashiah.
I hope the person that made this video actually gets this. I would like to say how thankful I am that someone can explain the Bible in such an easy to understand why. God bless you
I am studying the bible and I am really grateful for the simple way this was explained. Thank you.
Thank you for making things clearer.. I'm studying the bible, and I need all the help I can get.
Thanks Patricia. Making it easier is exactly what I'm going for.
Just make sure your not being mis lead like we have been getting for hundred of year's
Watch the Derek Prince videos! AMAZING and consider Bible College.
@@chrise842 nah....he is the whole truth!
@@chrise842 he is not our Messiah. He is just a great teacher of scripture. Far better than most.
"You brood of snakes and vipers."
Jesus said!
John also said that haha
Quick way to remember the difference (trigger warning: dad joke) The Sadducess did not believe in the resurrection, that's why they were sad, you see. Sorry, couldn't help it.
The Pharisees, meanwhile, were not fair, you see, because they were all caught up in thier interpretation of the law.
Good one. I'll remember it now. Thx
this is amazing
😂
We all love that joke.
Very Good , thank you for clearing that all up.
Jesus is ,the way,the truth and the life .
Wow.. I was looking to get a clear meaning of what the Pharisees and Sadducees had in common and their differences and this has helped. Far more than I thought. Thank you so much for this
Well done. Except for the manatee. That part sucked. No cuts? Impressive.
I like the manatee! You could do a brief video highlighting all of the mentions of "(hides of) sea cows" in the Bible, just for fun.
Maybe Matt's just a master of cuts, and we didn't see them.
Destin don't be such a hater.
Hey Destin
I hear that is an antique manatee trophy.
When you compared them to Republicans and Democrats, it reminded me of Ecclesiastes 1
9What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
I thank you because although you ran through several centuries it was by far the best and clearest rendition I have come across.
EXCELLENT synopsis in 7 minutes of a rather difficult topic to explain. Brilliant!! Thank you! 👍🙂
Great video. Very clear and memorable. Definitely a fan of these explain-a-particular-topic style videos. Keep up the good work.
There's more to the story than that...
The Sadducees began way back in the 400's. They were the descendants of the High Priest Zadok, of King David's time. They thought they ought to be the priests appointed by the Persians to rule Judea. So they were. But as the leaders of Judea, they were the ones who developed the most wealth and interactions with Greek culture. They became so secular that they saw all the Jewish rituals as only pertaining to the Temple. In other words, they thought all God asked was for them to do the "church" thing one day a week, and they could live as they wished the other 6 days.
The Pharisee movement began about 100 years after the Sadducees began. The word "Pharisee" means "separated one."
You see, among the Levites, only the sons of Aaron were to be priests. But now, there was an elite strain of priests in charge.
So there were three classes of religious people... The sons of Zadok (Sadducees) 2. the rest of the priests, and 3. the rest of the Levites.
The Pharisee movement was a reaction against the worldliness of the Sadducees.
The movement began among the non-priests of the Levites, who were scribes and teachers of the Law in the synagogues.
Thus, by the first century, the Pharisees (who believed they had oral traditions passed down from the time of Moses!) had become quite cold in heart, seeking for brownie points only by outward ritual.
It was very much like the holiness movement which swept through the Eastern USA in the late 1800's, as a Wesleyan reaction against the worldliness of the very denominations which traced their heritage directly from the core of the European Reformation.
History repeats itself.
Strangely, Sadduceeism died out completely after there was no place for them, when Titus destroyed the Temple in 70 AD.
So, Phariseeism was left as the only guiding movement among the Jews, during the disperson.
Which is why Modern Judaism is actually Phariseeism in modern clothes.
Which leads us to the question... is Pentecostalism (rooted in the Holiness movement of 130 years ago) as it grows by leaps and bounds worldwide, taking over christianity?
History always repeats itself. And now, the return of the Lord draws near and I fear that very few of us will recognize Jesus our Saviour once again.
@@kenim Perhaps the more accurate concern will be, will Jesus recognize us? Will we be the ones left outside weeping and gnashing our teeth? We must continually pray and keep the Word of God in our hearts. Abide in Him and He in us.
kenim Jesus is already here. They just locked him up in a mental asylum.
Love when you do videos like this. The interplay between classical history and Biblical history and theology is fascinating. You should discuss the pre-Nicaea early church in more depth sometime.
Thanks very much. I've got more like this coming next month.
I cannot express my thanks. You rock.
Thank you! I'm so glad someone else sees this. I've started to call the Democratic & Republican parties religions as a confrontation. I believe faith in Human Government is the most widely accepted idolatry of our time. There's only one Kingdom I'm loyal to!
Contemporary normative Judaism which is rabbinical, especially Orthodox and Conservative, is a direct descendant of the Pharisees. The Sadducees have no heirs in the Jewish world
There were other Jewish parties such as the Essenes, the Zealots, and the Hellenists. The Pharisees are the creators of the Talmud.
> The Sadducees have no heirs in the Jewish world
They might, in the form of Karaite Judaism, depending upon how you slice and dice what the Karaites of today believe. There's only about 100,000 of them world-wide these days, but at one time they made a credible run at becoming the major form of Judaism. Among other things, they flat out reject the Talmud.
Well explained. The Sadducees disappeared but spiritually have their descendants in liberal more secular atheist Jews. But more important, history repeats itself with legalistic traditional christianity and liberal christians. Again, they will not recognize their messiah when He manifests himself.
Great explanation! I've known the kids songs growing up but never learned the difference between the two or what they really were. It makes it easier to understand now!
Thanks for doing this video, I always saw the pharisees and the sadducees as somewhat interchangeable, now this gives me a whole new perspective.
Thank you, for this explanation. It actually helped me in my quiet time this morning. God bless you.
Thanks Matt. Exceptionally well explained in a short time. Well done.
Gracias!
That was a great explanation! I loved your use of the green screen and timeline - it felt very immersive.
Excellent video. Please keep up the good work. May God be with you as you move forward. Please pray for this ministry and all the RUclips ministries laboring for the cause of God.
Well put Matt. Can you also talk more about the Sanhedrin, it's origins, impact it had at the time of Jesus. And current times. Thanks again.
Within Jewish tradition, the Sanhedrin (quibble: short _e_ in middle) traced itself back, as an institution to the 70 elders of Numbers ch. 11.
Good video but my eye twitched when you called it "Greekicizing" at 3:58. It's called "Hellenizing".
While you are correct, there is such a thing as artistic license and I think he used it well there to connect with the audience, particularly the younger members of the audience.
thats because you are not epic anymore.
you nerd
Whilst I didn’t mind the “greekicising” as it made the point very well for the listeners, it’s also good to know how it should be said properly. Thank you.
Splitting hairs!
Thank you for the explanation! We just happened to discuss this last night at our bible study. May God bless your ministry... I have been enjoying your channel!
You briefly touched on the maccabean rebellion. I would love to see more on that from you :) I had to write a paper on that in college.
This was the best explanation I found thus far! Thanks
wow!! this vid is so on point!! exactly what I was looking for!! thanks
+GlobalHumanEducation glad it hear it!
ooh and you're quick on the reply as well!! haha great stuff. i'd really like to show you my project!! there is a video called 'Introduction to IsraelAlia' in my channel or 'IsraelAlia: Exploring the Covenant' on Facebook! It's about Deut 17:8-11 which says that all controversies must be resolved by the Priests and a Judge.. this system has never been implemented once throughout history! and it is fundamental to the creation of religious law! Huge issue that has been missed throughout the generations.. would love your thoughts!! :)
@@MattWhitmanTMBH Could you please make a video on the third group of ascetic jews, the essenes and their dead sea scrolls...
I love God! He's fabulous, kind, and loving. He is so beautiful to me.
Fabulous summation of Bible characters which I never quite got. God bless you for your teaching style.
Great explanation! Really happy I found your channel through No Dumb Questions.
You're doing an amazing job, don't matter what religion you are. The Word of God needs to be Preached. So much more work needs to be done, til God Returns!
Thanks Matt! This actually helped me understand the background history of the Phars and the Sads
Thanks for the quick rundown I always struggle with this one.
Love at first sight. I like your channel right away.
Wow! This was super helpful. I'm showing it to my kids tonight.
Awesome stuff! I did a video on the Pharisees specifically recently, there aren't enough videos that go in depth about these groups
Cool very well explained. Thank you very much. God bless you. Blessings from India
I really appreciate you man for explaining such a complicated subject so easily. Thanks!
This was a very good clarification. Thanks for posting.
Very good - Can't wait to see Part 2 where we get a bit more depth!
Just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed this video! Well done, keep going!
Sick shirt! Oh & I loved the comparison to congress
My wife bought me that one. It happies me.
This was fascinatingly applicable to today. Thanks!
Thank you, Matt. This resonated with me.
Thank you for sharing this lesson!
another home run... these videos are great
My class loved this video! Thank you for explaining this so well!
Hi Matt, My name is Beth and I've been watching your Ten Minute Bible Hour videos for a while now. My bible study group is studying the book of Acts and your "commentary" on it has been THE BEST! I love your style of teaching, your humor, your intelligence and the way you make things so easy to understand without being condescending and the way you accept that others may not always agree.. I would like to contribute to you to help you to continue to do the Ten Minute Bible Hour but don't know how. Can you help tell me if there is a way? Also, being Ash Wednesday, I am a non-practicing Catholic, my husband is a very devote Catholic and I would love to hear your opinion on Lent if you have the time. Thanks so much for helping make studying the bible so much fun and so much easier to learn!
Thanks Beth! I'm super happy to hear that the Acts series has been fun and useful for you! I had a blast making it, and it's always encouraging to hear that others are getting something out of it as well.
Some people support the program at patreon.com/TMBH. I'm very grateful for the people who do that, but I have no expectation of support, and I'm happy to offer this content for free. That said, I'm honored that you would even think about it.
Also, I'm getting the distinct impression I should make a video about lent for next year :)
Great teaching Matt. It was a very confusing time but you boiled it down very succinctly. Looking at modern Judaism it would appear the Sadducees won. Have no fear, Jesus will get it all straightened out real soon.
👀 at your background, & I'm 😲 wow!, God is great, cause I'm on 3rd part of the 🎥 collection. The Jews are wearing those exact clothes I mean w/ the same 👨 playing high priest. Thanks 4 taking time & breaking this topic on a easily understood level. Remain blessed.
Thank you so much, Matt. If more history lessons had a great overview at the beginning, I know I would remember more.
Loved the simplified explanation!
Jesus not belonging to either side of a traditional conservative/liberal ideology set? Weird how that worked... :-P Hope you catch the sarcasm in this latter half of the comment. ;-)
Excellent summary here Matt
This was very well put!
Great video Thank you !
Thank you for this explaining who the Pharisees were going back into the OT for your explanation. It was very helpful. 😊👍
Awesome explanation, I had to jump back and re-listen like 8 times because attention deficit but worth every jump.
So clear bro!! Thank you.
This was so awesome! And very straightforward! Thank you so much! New subscriber here!!!
Really, really good explanation. Thank you!
thank you for your teaching, praise you holy spirit hallejuah
Great choice for a topic, and very good execution (as usual)! I've seen the previous video so I know you're thinking about what kind of videos to do next, and I think this is a very good start, with explanations about people mentioned in the Bible and a look at their history and context, would love to see more of this.
Thanks Francesca. I've got some more fun ones coming from Italy next month.
Speaking of which, are you coming to the No Dumb Questions meet up next week in Rome?
The Ten Minute Bible Hour you're very welcome, looking forward to them!
I'll be there, yes :D June 4th at the Ara Pacis at 11am, right?
+Francesca Mele right on! See you there.
The Ten Minute Bible Hour yep, and have a safe flight!
Excellent!! Thank you
This was really helpful. Thanks. God bless you.
Was totally thinking about this while listening to Matthew on audible
Thank you. This is very helpful to me right now.
Wow you certainly answered my question. Thank you.
Matt, excellent job. I am looking forward to the eclipse
Thank you for the teaching bro 👍
Excellent video, thank you!
Thank you for this. Very concise explanation. Short but extremely informative.
Really good teaching. Thanks!
Can we get some sources please.
Thanks Matt I appreciate this information
Brehhhhhh I wish I watched this video years ago. Makes so much sense and clears it up. Kinda cool how it is similar to modern day society and makes it easy to understand
Are the phrases like the religious police in Saudi Arabia?
Excellent explanation which helped me to understand the difference...
Wow! Never thought of it this way :D
Pharisees-Sadducees
Right-Left
Catholic-Protestant
Conservative-Liberal
God loves when people are polarized, doesn't He? :P
Oddly enough, Jesus was very harsh with scribes, pharisees and sadducees, but he was much more comprehensive with publicans and prostitutes.
Except, by the standards of their own time and place, the Sadducees were actually the conservatives and the Pharisees the liberals. The Herodians would then go further to the Right of the former and the Zealots likewise to the Left of the latter.
Sooo good! Love this! Great job! Very clear and helpful! Blessings -
Wow. Thank you so much, it was super helpful 👏👏👏👏😊
Nice video, Matt! Thanks for the clarification! I always had thought they were roughly the same people with different titles. ;)
I’m reading through Matthew right and it can’t get confusing when names like these are thrown in.
You should check out some of Sam Aronow’s videos on how the Sanhedrin actually worked, also the Sanhedrin was wayyy older than the time period you are talking about, also jesus himself was most likely a pharisee, he was around them all the time, he also said we should listen to the pharisees but not be hypocrites and he even went as far as to say we should try to be MORE righteous than the pharisees, the Torah(the law) was actually very important to jesus and his early followers, it wasn’t until paul came along about 30-40 years later that christians started thinking that the law was no longer valid, there was even a big group of early christians known as ebionites that even went as far as to call paul a blasphemer, the ebionites ended up dying out due to persecution and the church ended up destroying their writings
Comming from someone who is Jewish, but you’re evaluation of the two groups is missing a lot of information and historical context. I would be glad to fill you in if you would be open to talking.
I mean I would like to know what he did that was so wrong it needed to be a judgment of death like wow
When did the Romans step in?
Thanks for your informative video as always Matt. I'm quite troubled with which party to support. It means like all parties will never truly reflect what Jesus wants for us..
How do you get a reverse circumcision? maybe a video about that? :)
Good video, I read about The Herodians?
great video!
Well done!
Gifted teacher.
Can you also do one on the whereabouts of the Covenant ?
Is it really in Ethiopia ?
There's also this belief it's in the bowels under the city of Jerusalem hidden there before Nebuchadnezzar's forces arrived.
That should really get everyone talking.
I’m curious, what did these two groups believe about circumcision? I think I can guess but I’m not sure.
technical point: Is it possible you changed something with the sound. First I thought it is on my side, but then I looked at a few other videos of yours and they are definitely louder.
Very informative
Thanks Matt
If the Sadducees didn't believe in the resurrection, were they interested in God solely because it was a social construct for them? If they didn't believe in a resurrection what did they believe would happen when you die?
The Sadducees actually did believe in the, for lack of a better term, more primitive underworld concept of Sheol but ultimately emphasized attaining blessings for themselves, their nation and their progeny in this world. A lot of ancient religions operated in this sort of way.
I understood there was also a kind of class warfare at play between the two groups also. The Sadducees were largely from an aristocratic background and regarded themselves as "the betters" of several other groups (including the other major group, the Pharisees). As a result when the Romans crushed the Jewish rebellion, the Sadducees were seen by the Romans as a Jewish equivalent to their own Patricians (ie. the ruling class) and were disproportionately punished, contributing largely to eventual dissappearance of their form of Judeism. I believe the modern forms of Judeism (Orthodox, Conservative, Progressive/Reform etc) have evolved largely from what was left of the Pharisees and their approach to life and religion, after the persecutions of the Romans.
Thanks for this video it have got me thinking. I'm interested in how things have a way of polarising and almost creating identities based on not being like the other. Do different groups start to change their identity based on how their perceived opposites (and use this term loosely here) are? Did the Pharisees and Sadducees change who they each were based on how they perceived the other group? So for example might the Pharisees have seen the Sadducees as not being pious enough so in turn they became even more pious? Or the reverse have happened with the Sadducees believing the Pharisees as being too serious and consciously become less serious so as to distance themselves from the other group?
Has this happened at other times through history? It certainly would seem to my observations that a case could be made to say it has. For example, have Jews and Christians evolved the way the have because of how each perceives the other and a perceived need to distance each from the other? Have Protestants and Roman Catholics? It appears that our political systems in the West have worked to encourage this polarisation in Politics, and from what I have seen of religion, it appears similar forces often have been and likely continue to be at work.
I find a useful lesson to be learnt in thinking about this - one of caution. How distorted might our political, religious, or other views be by historical polarisation based on rejecting a perceived opposing view? Sadducee/ Pharisee, Roman Catholic / Protestant, Conservative / Progressive or in any other similar division. We as humans have been prone (too often) to over-emphasisng the differences. Without a broad contextual understanding of a situation it is very easy to be attracted to a polarised view in which one side is always right and the other always wrong. Without seeing the big picture of a situation, groups that are very close to each other become enemies.
Just because someone's opinion may differ to mine does not mean we need to become opposites of each other. In our world today it seems we have far too many divisions and have become more intolerant than ever. I believe we must find a way in our differences to truly tolerate these differences without enforcing one right way on everyone. Be this in religion, politics or anything which we believe matters. As yet I don't believe any of us know how, but we really must keep trying to find a way.