Who is this mysterious group who challenges Jesus on the resurrection but believes in God?

We'll tackle the Sadyses next with Jimmy Aiken.

Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus I'm Cy Kellett your host and we're in the

midst of three conversations with Jimmy Aiken on some of the movements in the Jewish

world of Jesus' time.

Last time we talked about the Pharisees,

if you haven't gotten that one,

wherever you get your podcast,

you can go back and listen to our conversation

about the Pharisees.

Next time we'll talk about the Aines this time the Sadyses.

There's a certain way in which as a kid reading the the

the Gospels or you know having the Gospels read at Mass or whatnot you could easily kind of

group the scribes and the Pharisees and the Sadducees and go these are the who are these people they all seem like they're the same

opponents of Jesus you don't make a clear distinction well the gospel authors make a

clear distinction that's why they use three different terms for them.

So the gospel authors were aware of the distinctions between these groups. It's us who are not.

Yeah, right, I guess. So we're reading along and it's like, okay, these people seem to be opposing Jesus

much of the time, not always, but much of the time.

And so we kind of lump them together because we're not really familiar with who these movements are and that's why we're doing this series.

So the Sadyses then, what makes them distinctive?

Who are they?

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