Jesus only loses his cool a handful of times ... Those were another Jewish sect: the Sadducees, the priestly class that controlled Temple worship and held the most political influence with the ...

The Sadducees are usually associated with aristocratic ... was a relatively new holiday celebration at the time of Jesus. It had only been around for something like a hundred years.

Next the Lucan gospel traces Jesus' genealogy back to Adam in order ... chief priests (men in charge of the Temple and Sanhedrin), Sadducees (anti-resurrection sect of Jews) and rulers of the ...