Reflection

On
Lesson 3
Setting of the New Testament:
Learn about the Day-to-Day life in
New Testament time.
I’d like to point out right at the beginning that the time of Jesus, the population of Palatine

people is incredibly diverse. Upon doing those things Palestine people distinct from all other

places. And during distinction of Palestine people they are practicing circumcision that starts at

Friday at six until the next day.

The first people of the Palestine is the Pharisees. They may be the best known of the Jewish sects

to readers of the New Testament. Pharisees people doing a hand washing before they eat and

until now many of the people doing hand washing before they eat especially at this time or at the

time of pandemic you need to wash your hand and disinfect your hand to secure your safety or to

be clean before you eat.

The second people of Palestine is the Sadducees. Saddest is probably where the most powerful

Jewish group of the day. The Sadducees were a sect or group of Jews who were active in Judea

during the Second Temple period, starting from the second century BCE through the destruction

of the Temple in 70 CE. The Sadducees are often compared to other contemporaneous sects,

including the Pharisees and the Essenes.

There are a lot of difference between Pharisees and Sadducees. Pharisees talks about the law

while Sadducees is talks about the temple. Pharisees interpretation of torah while the Sadducees

is the torah alone. The Pharisees is in the middle class while the Sadducees is in the upper class.

The Pharisees believed in the resurrection of the dead while Sadducees didn’t believed in the

resurrection of the dead. And also the Pharisees believed in the after

life while the Sadducees didn’t believed in the afterlife. And lastly the Pharisees rejected or they

are not supported by the Jewish Leaders while the Sadducees are supported by the Jewish

Leaders.
The third people of Palestine is the Essenes. Essenes were ascetic separatists who live in private

communities. They probably are to be connected with the group that lived in the desert at

Qumran and preserve the library known as the dead sea scrolls. The Essenes were a mystic

Jewish sect during the Second Temple period that flourished from the second century Before

Christ Era to the first century Common Era. Like the Pharisees, the Essenes meticulously

observed the Law of Moses, the Sabbath, and ritual purity. They also professed belief in

immortality and divine punishment for sin. But, unlike the Pharisees, the Essenes denied the

resurrection of the body and refused to immerse themselves in public life.

The fourth people of Palestine is Zealot. The Zealots were a political movement in first-century

Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the

Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First

Jewish–Roman War. Zealot is the member of a Jewish sect noted for its uncompromising

opposition to pagan Rome and the polytheism it professed.

The fifth people of the Palestine is Herodian. The Herodian were a political coalition of Jews

who supported the family and dynasty of herod, which included many roman leaders who ruled

various areas of Palestine at various times. The Herodians were a sect of Hellenistic

Jews mentioned in the New Testament on two occasions — first in Galilee, and later in

Jerusalem — being hostile to Jesus. In each of these cases their name is coupled with that of the

Pharisees. Like the Pharisees, the Herodians wanted political independence for the Jewish

people. Unlike the Pharisees, who sought to restore the kingdom of David, the Herodians wished

to restore a member of the Herodian dynasty to the throne in Judea.

The sixth people of Palestine is the Samaritan. The Samaritans lived primarily in Samaria the

region situated between Judea and Galilee. Samaritans have their own temples and they claim

that it was the original sanctuary. They not accept the any scriptures accept the Pentateuch from

the first five bible book which is the book of Genesis, the book of Exodus, the book of Leviticus,

the book of Numbers, and lastly the book of Deuteronomy. And they had their own version of

Pentateuch which is which deferred the giples from of that Jews and also the Samaritans are not

children of Israel at all.

And lastly the people of Palestine is Gentiles. The Gentile is a person who is not Jewish. The

word stems from the Hebrew term goy, which means a nation, and was applied both to the

Hebrews and to any other nation. The plural, goyim, especially with the definite article, ha-

goyim, the nations, meant nations of the world that were not Hebrew. Gentiles had long been

distained by the Jews. But Jewish prophecies said that gentiles would some day seek their God

and gladly be ruled by their coming king. God intended the faith of the Jews to be given to all

mankind. It was the magi, Persian gentiles, who found a way to the home of the new king.