The Sadducees
12 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
8 sections
A Sect of the Jews
- Acts 5:17 Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out
Christ: Cautioned his Disciples Against Their Principles
- Matthew 16:6 “Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
- Matthew 16:11–12 How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” …
Christ: Silenced
- Matthew 22:34 And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together.
Christ: Tempted By
- Matthew 16:1 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.
Christ: Vindicated the Resurrection Against
- Matthew 22:24–32 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. …
- Mark 12:19–27 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him. …
Denied the Resurrection and a Future Stated
- Matthew 22:23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.
- Luke 20:27 Then some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to question Him.
Persecuted the Christians
- Acts 4:1 While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
- Acts 5:17–18 Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out …
- Acts 5:40 At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.
The Resurrection a Cause of Dispute Between Them and The
- Acts 23:6–9 Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.” …
Related topics
SadduceesResurrectionArrest of Apostles
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.