The Pharisees and Sadducees (των Φαρισαιων κα Σαδδουκαιων). These two rival parties do not often unite in common action, but do ag…

Pharisees and Sadducees. The Jews were divided into three great sects: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the E enes. In addition to these,…

Pharisees and Sadducees — It is desirable to give a sufficient account of these two sects to explain their relation to each other …

The people were expecting a Messiah and so they went en masse to John as soon as his shrill voice had startled the solitudes. Bapt…

St. Gregory the Great: The words of teachers should be adapted to the character of their hearers, so that the teaching is consi…

Representatives of the Sanhedrin (composed of Pharisees, Sadducees, and the elders) came to examine what John was doing (cf. Jn 1:19, 24). The ques…

And when he saw many of the Pharisees. It is related here by Matthew and Luke that John did not merely preach repentance in a general mann…

But when he saw many of the Pharisees

This being the first place in which mention is made of the Pharisees and Sad…

Applying the me age to the souls of the hearers is the life of preaching; and so it was with John's preaching. The Pharisees placed their main emph…

The Evangelist wrote about Christ’s entrance into the world; now, however, he writes about the course of His life, which is, in fact, considered ac…