It is natural for us to pray for people who are close to us: our family members, relatives, and friends. But it is also good ...

There is a story from Jesus’ life, in which the Pharisees and the Sadducees, two church political groups, tested Jesus. They were bound and determined to trip Him up, trying to undermine His ...

Thus began a confrontation between the combined kingship-priesthood and the Sanhedrin (the ... the P’rushim (Pharisees), and the breakaway Tzedukim (Sadducees), regarding the ceremony of ...

As a member of the Sanhedrin, Joseph was well ... did not wait for the Messiah’s coming. The Pharisees held strictly to the Law, whereas the Sadducees took a more liberal approach to the Law ...

After He entered Jerusalem and expelled merchants and money changers from the temple, Jesus returned to Bethany to continue teaching and challenging religious authorities, exposing the hypocrisy of ...

The different factions of the Jewish community at the time — Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes ... In tractate Sanhedrin of the Babylonian Talmud, on folio 43a, a beraita (a teaching from before ...

Local congregations invite all in the community to join them in faith — whether they are looking for a new church family or are new to town and are seeking a place to worship. A look at the ...

The Essenes, Pharisees and the Sadducees bitterly ... who Alexander Janneus and the Sadducees deposed from the Sanhedrin. The Queen, with the help of her brother, reinstated the sages her ...

Josephus, who lived in the first century, mentions four groups: Pharisees; Sadducees; Essenes ... Mark 12:18-27), and as members of the Sanhedrin. The series rightly portrays them as being ...

Unlike the Pharisees, the Sadducees largely rejected beliefs in immortality ... the Temple of Jerusalem (also known as Herod's Temple) and the Sanhedrin, the governing body overseeing Jewish religious ...