Bible Verses About The Essenes And Jewish Sects

And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.

Direct Bible statement about a split between Pharisees and Sadducees

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

Direct Bible passage on the Sadducees' belief

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Direct Bible passage naming the Sadducees and Pharisees

But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

Direct Gospel passage naming the Pharisees and Sadducees together

Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,

Names the Sadducees as a sect in Acts

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Uses the word sect for the Way, showing sect language in Acts

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

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Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

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Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;

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All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

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And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

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Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

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And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

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And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,

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These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

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Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

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And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

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And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

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And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

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But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

Shows sectarian language about the Pharisees in Acts

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

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Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

Purification dispute background

The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Purity-washing customs among Pharisees and Jews

Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Separating from the mixed multitude, background on separation rather than Essenes

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

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And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

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Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.

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Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

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And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

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And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

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Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,

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