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The Pharisees and Jesus often clashed-yet they had much in common theologically, and Jesus had many non adversarial contacts with them. At the same time, Jesus rejected the validity of the oral laws of the Pharisees and also their emphasis on ritual purity that made the Pharisees refuse any contact with "sinners." Jesus came with the invitation to all people to enter the kingdom of God, while the Pharisees in effect disinvited all who did not live by the same standards as they. It was especially this exclusivism that Jesus objected to in the Pharisees; by using only standards of external behavior to measure people's relationship with God, they failed to realize that it is what is inside a person that counts, and that they therefore needed God's grace as much as the worst sinner. And it was this external religion that made it very difficult for them to believe in Jesus who did not do all the things the Pharisees felt a religious person should do. Jesus' work stirred up very great hatred in the Pharisees. They said that Jesus was in league with Satan. Despite the problems Jesus had with the Pharisee, it was the Sanhedrin who formally challenged Jesus' authority in the court of the temple (Matthew 11:27-33; Matthew 21:23-27) which later lead to the chief priests and elders of the Jews to plot to seize Jesus in secret and to kill him (Mark 14:1-2, Matthew 26:1-5, Luke 22:1-2).

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