Sadducees
During the time of Christ, the Sadducees were a religiopolitical group that held a great deal of power among the Jews in Israel. The Sadducees confronted Jesus on occasion, (Matthew 16:1; Mark 12:18), and they later opposed the preaching of the apostles (Acts 4:1–2).
Son Of David
Seventeen verses in the New Testament describe Jesus as the “Son of David.” But how could Jesus be the son of David when David lived about 1,000 years before Jesus?
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