What's the difference between pharisee and sadducee?

Pharisee


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.

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Sadducee


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels.

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  • (1) This kind of marriage was still theoretically current enough in Jesus’s day for it to be the basis of a question the Sadducees asked him about a bride, seven brothers and resurrection (Matthew 22:23–32).

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