Grieved at their hard hearts, Jesus healed the man on the spot. The Pharisees began conspiring with the Herodians (secularists) to destroy Jesus. Finally, the religious leaders were jealous of Jesus.

JACOB Z. LAUTERBACH, THE PHARISEES AND THEIR TEACHINGS, Hebrew Union College Annual, Vol. 6 (1929), pp. 69-139 ...

How could this be? The Adulteress and Jesus One day, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees wanted to set a trap for Jesus so they could humiliate him in public. They executed this plan by ...

This event also fulfilled Jesus's promise. Several weeks earlier, some Pharisees came to lure Him back to Judea. Jesus said that He would not return until such time as the citizens of Jerusalem would ...

Sadducees were concerned more with keeping the status-quo and economic stability, cooperating with foreign rulers. They did not believe in the resurrection of the dead or the existence of angels and ...