Members of a politically influential Jewish party in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus and the apostles.
About Sadducees
The Sadducees were a Jewish religious group mentioned 14 times in the New Testament. They are not mentioned in the Old Testament.
Scholars have suggested several different explanations for how the Sadducees got their name:
Key References
Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.
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,
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.
All Scripture References (14)
Matthew (7)
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.
“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.
And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together.
Mark (1)
Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him:
Luke (1)
Then some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to question Him.
Acts (5)
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,
Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out
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.”
As soon as he had said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection nor angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.