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Making sense of the New Testament requires navigating a labyrinth of different cultural, religious, political, and economic groups that existed in first-century Jewish society—as well as in the Roman Empire at large. In this introduction to the major people groups of the New Testament world, William Simmons clarifies New Testament history and teaching. He provides a historical analysis of major...

Perhaps no other religious group played a greater role in the life of Jesus and the early church than the Pharisees. Some form of the word “Pharisee(s)” appears eighty-eight times in the Gospels, eight times in the book of Acts, and once in the Epistles, making a total of ninety-seven occurrences in the New Testament (UBS4). As prominent as the Pharisees were, it would be a gross simplification, if not a distortion of the truth, to characterize Jesus’
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