Who Were The Pharisees? - Ancient Israel 101

In this brief video teaching excerpt from a full-length teaching entitled "Which Jesus Do You Serve?", Bible teacher/researcher Jerry Robinson examines the Pharisees, as written of in the four gospels of the New Testament.

The Pharisees were one of four important religious groups that dominated Israel in the days of Jesus Christ.

The Pharisees were the largest sect within Judaism at the time of Christ. Unlike the Sadducees, the Pharisees maintained a strict adherence to the letter of the Mosaic Law. Because the Pharisees were strongly conservative and sought to preserve the ancient ways of Judaism, they were often opposed to the encroaching Hellenism and viewed pagan Roman influences as a threat to the Jewish way of life.

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[acuteangle]

Thanks it's informative and easy to understand.

[soundjudgement]

Appreciate brief video overview, albeit, it was truly lacking in details. The four known Jewish sects at that time were: Essenes, Zealots, Sadducees and Pharisees

[chiselwick]

Recently watched John chapter 8 on Netflix and replayed twice the part where Jesus confronted the Pharisees at the Temple about their unbelief. One of the most touching moments was when, in the heat of disagreement, Jesus said, "If you knew My Father, you would love me." Found myself pondering who the modern Pharisees are...

[Datsick]

And people like this still exist . People want to silence Jesus, they went to silence Gods word . It’s really showing in the US, and many other countries

[YournetworkAI]

Just to make something clear, Christ criticized Jews as a JEW, not as a gentile, not as an antisemite. It's his own people whom he obviously loved (he followed Jewish laws till his death and even loved lots of Pharasiee ideas like "Pikouhah Nefesh" and took love thy neighbor as thy self from Hilel who wrote this quote a century earlier than Christ "What is hateful to you, do not do to others. This is the whole of the Torah. The rest is the commentary; go and study.”. What most Christians don't understand about Jews is we criticize each other A LOT till this very day. We argue a lot (the Talmud is just a bunch of arguments and debates about how to be just), and Jesus' criticism of the Pharisees makes sense from that perspective (Jews feel like they constantly need to improve on the law and how to practice it). The problem becomes when outsiders take this as a criticism towards JEWS as a whole and of course we know the result of this with all the atrocities in history committed against Jews by Christians. All I am saying is show love, we don't hate you and don't forget Jesus was Jewish, his apostles were as well, and we're all brothers. Love thy neighbor as thyself, and appreciate the beauty in every group and religion.

[MrsJeann]

Did we end up doing the video on Ancient Greek of democracy?

[Nathaniel]

If your cloth turned to gold should it be yours?

[henry]

A friend of Liêm said he see the great pagoda in China by such thing called “iSee”, I think Parisee got nothing to do with this…

[GradyRisley]

I disagree with your assessment that the Jewish culture was striving to hold on and maintain. This just doesn't match up with history. Jews were protected and preserved by the Roman Empire and the Jews even offered sacrifices on behalf of Rome to YHWH at the temple daily (two sheep and a bull) from early in the reign of Augustus till AD66ish. When Jews were discriminated again, there are at least two edicts that were sent out that ordered all nations under Rome to leave the Jews alone and let them practice their religion as they saw fit, no matter what nation they were in, that was under Rome. The fact of the matter is, Jews received preferential treatment from Rome and the Temple was undoubtedly the most luxurious, amazing and expensive building on the planet at that time. That money didn't come from Judea and overtaxed Jews. The nations brought and sent their wealth to Jerusalem, just as the Bible said. My2Cents

[xgrapher]

"child like faith" people also worship cows but it is not easy to fool the learned men