The Pharisees, who not only accepted the Torah, but the rest of the Hebrew scriptures also, believed in the Resurrection of the Dead, and it is known to have been a major point of contention between the two groups ( see ).

When Jesus told Lazarus ’ sister, Martha, that Lazarus would rise again, she replied, " I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day ". 11: 24 Also, one of the two main branches of the Jewish religious establishment, the Pharisees, believed in and taught the future resurrection of the body. Acts 23: 1-8

This is believed to be a more accurate historical depiction of the Pharisees, who made debate one of the tenets of their system of belief.

Pharisees believed in resurrection, while Essenes believed in the immortality of the soul, and Sadducees, apparently, believed in neither.

The Pharisees believed in Resurrection of the Dead, and the Sadducees did not.

The Sadducees did not believe in an afterlife, but the Pharisees believed in a literal resurrection of the body.

Later texts like the Mishnah and the Talmud record a host of rulings by Rabbis, some of whom are believed to be from among the Pharisees, concerning sacrifices and other ritual practices in the Temple, torts, criminal law, and governance.

According to Josephus, whereas the Sadducees believed that people have total free will and the Essenes believed that all of a person's life is predestined, the Pharisees believed that people have free will but that God also has foreknowledge of human destiny.

According to Josephus, Pharisees were further distinguished from the Sadducees in that Pharisees believed in the resurrection of the dead.

Unlike the Sadducees, the Pharisees also believed in the resurrection of the dead in a future, messianic age.

The Pharisees believed in a literal resurrection of the body.

First, Pharisees believed in a broad and literal interpretation of Exodus ( 19: 3 – 6 ), " you shall be my own possession among all peoples ; for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation ," and the words of 2 Maccabees ( 2: 17 ): " God gave all the people the heritage, the kingdom, the priesthood, and the holiness.

The Pharisees believed that the idea that all of the children of Israel were to be like priests was expressed elsewhere in the Torah, for example, when the Law itself was transferred from the sphere of the priesthood to every man in Israel ( Exodus 19: 29 – 24 ; Deuteronomy 6: 7, 11: 19 ; comp.

The Pharisees believed that all Jews in their ordinary life, and not just the Temple priesthood or Jews visiting the Temple, should observe rules and rituals concerning purification.

The Pharisees believed that in addition to the written Torah recognized by both the Sadducees and Pharisees and believed to have been written by Moses, there exists another Torah, consisting of the corpus of oral laws and traditions transmitted by God to Moses orally, and then memorized and passed down by Moses and his successors over the generations.

Cohen points out that “ not all priests, high priests, and aristocrats were Sadducees ; many were Pharisees, and many were not members of any group at all .” As mentioned above, it is widely believed that the Sadducees were descended from the House of Zadok and sought to preserve this priestly line and the authority of the Temple.

When he met the Pharisees Nicodemus at night in the third chapter of the Gospel of John, he compared Moses ' lifting up of the bronze serpent in the wilderness, which any Israelite could look at and be healed, to his own lifting up ( by his death and resurrection ) for the people to look at and be healed.

Upon her death her elder son Hyrcanus sought support from Pharisees, and her younger son, Aristobulus, sought the support of the Sadducees.

* On the way to Jerusalem, predicting that the Son of Man will be delivered to the leading Pharisees and Sadducees, be condemned to death, delivered to the Gentiles, mocked, scourged, killed, and rise within three days

According to Josephus, the Sadducees differed from the Pharisees on a number of doctrinal grounds, notably rejecting ideas of life after death.

Upon the king's death, Queen Alexandra succeeded to the rulership ; and Simeon and his party, the Pharisees, obtained great influence.

Most commentators consider that Jesus ' statements refer to the specific group of Pharisees he was addressing, or possibly the Pharisaic movement as a whole, but not to the Jewish people as a whole, which would have included Jesus and all his followers.

Josephus ( 37 – c. 100 CE ), himself a Pharisee, claimed that the Pharisees received the backing and goodwill of the common people, apparently in contrast to the more elite Sadducees.

The major difference, however, was the continued adherence of the Pharisees to the laws and traditions of the Jewish people in the face of assimilation.

Josephus indicates that the Pharisees received the backing and good-will of the common people, apparently in contrast to the more elite Sadducees associated with the ruling classes.

In their day, the influence of the Pharisees over the lives of the common people remained strong and their rulings on Jewish law were deemed authoritative by many.

Regardless of the importance they gave to the Temple, and despite their support of Bar Koseba ’ s revolt, the Pharisees ’ vision of Jewish law as a means by which ordinary people could engage with the sacred in their daily lives provided them with a position from which to respond to all four challenges in a way meaningful to the vast majority of Jews.

As the disciples rest, Jesus prays ; then Judas Iscariot leads in either " a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and Pharisees " ( accompanied according to Luke's Gospel by the chief priests and elders ), or a " large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and elders of the people ", which arrests Jesus ; all his disciples run away.

The major difference, however, was the continued adherence of the Pharisees to the laws and traditions of the Jewish people in the face of assimilation.

The influence of the Pharisees over the lives of the common people remained strong, and their rulings on Jewish law were deemed authoritative by many.

In Antiquities, he describes “ the Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their father.

In the decades before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the Jewish people in the Roman province of Iudaea were divided into several movements, sometimes warring among themselves: Saducees, Pharisees, Essenes, and Zealots.

The Roman centurion is willing to execute the Pharisees because of their attempt to bribe him, yet Jesus says to let them go, after dividing their plunder: one third to Rome, one-third to the centurion's local needs, and one-third to the poor people of the nearby communities, some of whose children had been kidnapped by the Pharisees, to be sold as slaves.

In the Gospel narrative, the Pharisees were keeping people obligated to their vow once something was set aside as Korban, prohibiting them to use it even in order to attend to the need of the parents.

Some scholars, such as Daniel Boyarin and Paula Fredricksen, suggest that it was at this time, when Christians and Pharisees were competing for leadership of the Jewish people, that accounts of debates between Jesus and the apostles, debates with Pharisees, and anti-Pharisaic passages, were written and incorporated into the New Testament.

The Pharisees learn that Jesus is baptizing more people than John the Baptist, although it says that "... in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.

While the historicity of the gospel accounts is questioned to some extent by some critical scholars and non-Christians, the traditional view states the following chronology for his ministry: Temptation, Sermon on the Mount, Appointment of the Twelve, Miracles, Temple Money Changers, Last Supper, Arrest, Trial, Passion, Crucifixion on Good Friday (,), Nisan 14th (,, Gospel of Peter ) or Nisan 15th ( Synoptic Gospels ), ( 7Apr30, 3Apr33, 30Mar36, possible Fri-14-Nisan dates ,-Meier ), entombment by Pharisees Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus of the Sanhedrin, Resurrection by God on Easter Sunday, appearances to Paul of Tarsus (), Simon Peter (), Mary Magdalene (,), and others, Great Commission, Ascension, Second Coming Prophecy to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, and establishment of the Kingdom of God and the Messianic Age.

The Pharisees based their belief on passages such as, which says: “ Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Over the succeeding 47 chapters, Jesus is recorded as developing the theme that the ancient prophets, specifically Obadiah, Haggai and Hosea, were holy hermits following this religious rule ; and contrasting their followers – termed " true Pharisees " – with the " false Pharisees " who lived in the world, and who constituted his chief opponents.

As part of their struggle against Hellenistic civilization, the Pharisees established what may have been the world's first national male ( religious ) education and literacy program, based around meeting houses.

Jesus ' warning in that " this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " is tied back to his similar warning to the Scribes and the Pharisees that their judgment would " come upon this generation " (), that is, during the first century rather than at a future time long after the Scribes and Pharisees had passed from the scene.

Jesus ' warning in that " this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " is tied back to his similar warning to the Scribes and the Pharisees that their judgment would " come upon this generation " (), that is, during the first century rather than at a future time long after the Scribes and Pharisees had passed from the scene.

# Judaism's oppressiveness reflects the disposition of Jesus ' opponents called " Pharisees " ( predecessors of the " rabbis "), who in their teachings and behavior were hypocrites ( see Woes of the Pharisees ).

The Gospel of Mark refers to their ceremonial ablutions: " For the Pharisees … wash their hands ' oft '" or, more accurately, " with the fist " ( R. V., " diligently "); or, as Theophylact of Bulgaria explains it, " up to the elbow ," referring to the actual word used in the Greek New Testament, πυγμή pygmē, which refers to the arm from the elbow to the tips of the fingers.

Pharisees claimed prophetic or Mosaic authority for their interpretation of Jewish laws, while the Sadducees represented the authority of the priestly privileges and prerogatives established since the days of Solomon, when Zadok, their ancestor ( disputed ; see Sadducees ), officiated as High Priest.

One of the factors that distinguished the Pharisees from other groups prior to the destruction of the Temple was their belief that all Jews had to observe the purity laws ( which applied to the Temple service ) outside the Temple.

Josephus attests that Salome Alexandra was very favorably inclined toward the Pharisees and that their political influence grew tremendously under her reign, especially in the institution known as the Sanhedrin.

The Pharisees, like the Sadducees, were politically quiescent, and studied, taught, and worshiped in their own way.

At first the values of the Pharisees developed through their sectarian debates with the Sadducees ; then they developed through internal, non-sectarian debates over the law as an adaptation to life without the Temple, and life in exile, and eventually, to a more limited degree, life in conflict with Christianity.

The Oral Torah functioned to elaborate and explicate what was written, and the Pharisees asserted that the sacred scriptures were not complete on their own terms and could therefore not be understood.

The Pharisees based their authority to innovate on the verses: ".... according to the word they tell you ... according to all they instruct you.