Do Any Christians Actually Know Anything About the Sadducees and the Pharisees?

[Spooky]

I was the kind of kid who got in trouble for asking unanswerable questions of the adults in charge.  I once asked a Sunday school teacher who the Sadducees and the Pharisees were.  After some meaningless answers about they were hypocrites or bad people, she admitted she really didn't know.  (Sorry Mrs. Scneidder and thanks for admitting it).  I asked the question again at home and was told no one really knows.

We don't know all that much but we do know more than Jesus didn't like them, or they didn't like Jesus.  So if you are Christian or were raised Christian please chime in, and tell me what you know.  Yes it's cheating to look them up first.

Thankfully when I taught sunday school it was either 3rd graders or adults, so I didn't get many questions from either group.  The 3rd graders never came up with any difficult questions, and the adults didn't want to look dumb.

Bleh, I hope I didn't cause too much damage to those kids, I didn't know any better.