What relationship did the pharisees have with the Romans?

Answer 1

Actually, Pharisees had an extremely tenuous relationship with the Romans. Sadducees were joined at the hip with Rome. The Sadducees bought the High Priesthood from Rome and stole Roman tax money and tithes meant for the "poor" Levite priests maimtaining the temple in Jerusalem. The Sadducees hated Jesus for overturning their tables in the temple and for being a political reformer. It was the Sadducee High Priest who employed Paul to murder Christian Jews, most of whom, we know, like the majority of Judeans, followed the more liberal Pharasaic principles of men like Hillel and his grandson Gamliel. (Acts 6:8-8:1). History tells us that it was the Roman appointed Sadducees who dominated the Sanhedrin that convicted Jesus of heresy, not Pharisees who had no record of ever having accused anyone of heresy just because his followers had proclaimed him a messiah. Most Pharisee-following Judeans, in fact, were praying for a messiah, somone like Jesus, to liberate them from the hated Roman occupation. New Testament authors hated Pharisees because their idol Paul hated them just as he hated the original apostles, Jesus' family, Stephen, and anyone else he considered to act like a Pharisee. Paul was livid because although the apostles and other Pharisees did recognize his uncircumcized pagan converts as legitimate Christians, they and, in turn, the Romans, did not consider them as Jews, costing them any privileges the Jews enjoyed. Of course, Paul did play the Pharisee when it suited him. (Acts 23:6, 1Corinthians 9:20). Eventually, the Sadducees did have the last laugh, however, as Orthodox Christianity chose to follow Paul and his hateful message over the apostles' and Jesus' kind message instructing us how to establish a "Kingdom of G-d" on this earth as an example to other nations.

Answer 2

The principal Jewish sects at the start of the first century CE were the Sadducees and the Pharisees. While the Saddducees resisted foreign influence and sought to protect the influence of the wealthy in Jewish society, the Pharisees were much more amenable to foreign influences. While not exactly allied to the Romans, the Pharisees were more willing to coexist with the Roman administrators than were their fellow Jews.

Answer 3

They worked with the Romans, who allowed them to have power, provided the cooperated. They were grateful that the Romans allowed them to stay in their country but if they did work for the Romans, the Romans were not allowed to change or comment on their Religious beliefs.