Yes. The Sadducees were men of politics, power, money and secular life, continuing in the ways of the Hellenising Jews. They had abandoned various parts of Judaism; and they claimed no earlier source or tradition for their attitudes. They harassed the Torah-sages; and, like the tiny breakaway group called the Essenes, dwindled away after the time of the Second Destruction, like the earlier Jewish idolaters after the First Destruction. See also:
It is pronounced "sad-you-sees."
were so rich and powerful because after the crusades people flippe dasd gobbledygook youza
A member of a rich and powerful family is often referred to as an aristocrat or elite.
the rich and the powerful
You said it in your question. They were rich and powerful so they could have things poor people couldn’t have.
The plantation owners; because they were rich and powerful.
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Oligarch
values are not as deeply ingrained and that changing economic opportunities
i think the sadducees had a strong relationship for the romans; Visa-Versa.
the Sadducee's came from rich priestly family. They did not except change < so when Jesus came along and said he was from God they did not like that and desired to put him to death.
It was good if you were rich or powerful and pretty awful if you were not.