What conflict did the Sadducees have against Jesus Christ?

Answer 1

Biblical evidence indicates that the Sadducees took a leading part in seeking Jesus' death. Sadducees were members of the Sanhedrin, which court plotted against Jesus and, later, condemned him to death. Included in the court were Caiaphas, the Sadducee and high priest, and evidently also other prominent priests

Answer 2

Biblical evidence indicates that the Sadducees took a leading part in seeking Jesus' death. Sadducees were members of the Sanhedrin, which court plotted against Jesus and, later, condemned him to death. Included in the court were Caiaphas, the Sadducee and high priest. (Matthew 26:59-66; John 11:47-53; Acts 5:17, 21)

Answer 3

The Gospels refer often to the Sadducees

and Pharisees, as Jesus was in constant conflict with them. The Sadducees

and Pharisees comprised the ruling class of Israel. There are many similarities between the two groups but important differences between them as well.

The Sadducees:

During the time of Christ and the New Testament era, the Sadducees

were aristocrats. They tended to be wealthy and held powerful positions, including that of chief priests and high priest, and they held the majority of the 70 seats of the ruling council called the Sanhedrin. They worked hard to keep the peace by agreeing with the decisions of Rome (Israel at this time was under Roman control), and they seemed to be more concerned with politics than religion. Because they were accommodating to Rome and were the wealthy upper class, they did not relate well to the common man, nor did the common man hold them in high opinion. The common man related better to those who belonged to the party of the Pharisees. Though the Sadducees

held the majority of seats in the Sanhedrin, history indicates that much of the time they had to go along with the ideas of the Pharisaic minority, because the Pharisees were popular with the masses.

Religiously, the Sadducees

were more conservative in one main area of doctrine. The Pharisees gave oral tradition equal authority to the written Word of God, while the Sadducees

considered only the written Word to be from God. The Sadducees

preserved the authority of the written Word of God, especially the books of Moses (Genesis through Deuteronomy). While they could be commended for this, they definitely were not perfect in their doctrinal views. The following is a brief list of beliefs they held that contradict Scripture:

1. They were extremely self-sufficient

to the point of denying God's involvement in everyday life.

2. They denied any resurrection of the dead (Matthew 22:23;Mark 12:18-27;Acts 23:8).

3. They denied any afterlife, holding that the soul perished at death, and therefore denying any penalty or reward after the earthly life.

4. They denied the existence of a spiritual world, i.e.,

angels and demons (Acts 23:8).

Because the Sadducees

were more concerned with politics than religion, they were unconcerned with Jesus until they became afraid He might bring unwanted Roman attention. It was at this point that the Sadducees

and Pharisees united and conspired to put Christ to death (John 11:48-50;Mark 14:53;15:1). Other mentions of the Sadducees

are found inActs 4:1andActs 5:17, and the Sadducees

are implicated in the death of James by the historian Josephus (Acts 12:1-2).

The Sadducees

ceased to exist in A.D.

70. Since this party existed because of their political and priestly ties, when Rome destroyed Jerusalem and the temple in A.D.

70, the Sadducees

were also destroyed.

The Pharisees:In contrast to the Sadducees,

the Pharisees were mostly middle-class

businessmen, and therefore were in contact with the common man. The Pharisees were held in much higher esteem by the common man than the Sadducees.

Though they were a minority in the Sanhedrin and held a minority number of positions as priests, they seemed to control the decision making of the Sanhedrin far more than the Sadducees

did, again because they had the support of the people.

Religiously, they accepted the written Word as inspired by God. At the time of Christ's earthly ministry, this would have been what is now our Old Testament. But they also gave equal authority to oral tradition and attempted to defend this position by saying it went all the way back to Moses. Evolving over the centuries, these traditions added to God's Word, which is forbidden (Deuteronomy 4:2), and the Pharisees sought to strictly obey these traditions along with the Old Testament. The Gospels abound with examples of the Pharisees treating these traditions as equal to God's Word (Matthew 9:14;15:1-9;23:5;23:16,23,Mark 7:1-23;Luke 11:42). However, they did remain true to God's Word in reference to certain other important doctrines. In contrast to the Sadducees,

they believed the following:

1. They believed that God controlled all things, yet decisions made by individuals also contributed to the course of a person's life.

2. They believed in the resurrection of the dead (Acts 23:6).

3. They believed in an afterlife, with appropriate reward and punishment on an individual basis.

4. They believed in the existence of angels and demons (Acts 23:8).

Though the Pharisees were rivals of the Sadducees,

they managed to set aside their differences on one occasion-the

trial of Christ. It was at this point that the Sadducees

and Pharisees united to put Christ to death (Mark 14:53;15:1;John 11:48-50).

While the Sadducees

ceased to exist after the destruction of Jerusalem, the Pharisees, who were more concerned with religion than politics, continued to exist. In fact, the Pharisees were against the rebellion that brought on Jerusalem's destruction in A.D.

70, and they were the first to make peace with the Romans afterward. The Pharisees were also responsible for the compilation of the Mishnah,

an important document with reference to the continuation of Judaism beyond the destruction of the temple.

Both the Pharisees and the Sadducees

earned numerous rebukes from Jesus. Perhaps the best lesson we can learn from the Pharisees and Sadducees

is to not be like them. Unlike the Sadducees,

we are to believe everything The Bible says, including the miraculous and the afterlife. Unlike the Pharisees, we are not to treat traditions as having equal authority as Scripture, and we are not to allow our relationship with God to be reduced to a legalistic list of rules and rituals

Answer 4

The Sadducees were an intellectual aristocratic faction in the back pocket of Rome (not the true High priests) and the vassal king Herod (the semi-Edomite). Therefore anyone who represented a threat to their PC control had to be misrepresented and stopped (like today's wealthier US extreme liberals) while the Pharisees of the school of Shamai were the extreme right wing conservatives.

Answer 5

The main trouble they had was that Jesus claimed that god was his father.

Answer 6

Like the Pharisees they failed to keep God's Law. They opposed Jesus and sought his death.