Bible Verses About The Sadducees

Some Tz’dukim, who say there is no resurrection, came to Yeshua

Kefa and Yochanan were still speaking to the people when the cohanim, the captain in charge of the Temple police, and the Tz’dukim came upon them,

But the cohen hagadol and his associates, who were members of the party of the Tz’dukim, were filled with jealousy.

They arrested the emissaries and put them in the public jail.

After summoning the emissaries and flogging them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Yeshua, and let them go.

But knowing that one part of the Sanhedrin consisted of Tz’dukim and the other of P’rushim, Sha’ul shouted, “Brothers, I myself am a Parush and the son of P’rushim; and it is concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am being tried!”

When he said this, an argument arose between the P’rushim and the Tz’dukim, and the crowd was divided.

For the Tz’dukim deny the resurrection and the existence of angels and spirits; whereas the P’rushim acknowledge both.

So there was a great uproar, with some of the Torah-teachers who were on the side of the P’rushim standing up and joining in — “We don’t find anything wrong with this man; and if a spirit or an angel spoke to him, what of it?”