Joseph.  Antiq. lib. xiii. c. 10, sect. 6.  “The Pharisees have delivered up to the people many institutions, as received from the fathers, which are not written in the law of Moses.”

XVII. [p. 259.] Acts xxiii. 8.  “For the Sadducees say, that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.”

Joseph. de Bell. lib. ii. c. 8, sect. 14.  “They (the Pharisees) believe every soul to be immortal, but that the soul of the good only passes into another body, and that the soul of the wicked is punished with eternal punishment.”  On the other hand (Antiq. lib. xviii. e. 1, sect. 4), “It is the opinion of the Sadducees that souls perish with the bodies.”

XVIII. [p. 268.] Acts v. 17.  “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.”  Saint Luke here intimates that the high priest was a Sadducee; which is a character one would not have expected to meet with in that station.  This circumstance, remarkable as it is, was not however without examples.

Joseph.  Antiq. lib. xiii. c. 10, sect. 6, 7.  “John Hyreanus, high priest of the Jews, forsook the Pharisees upon a disgust, and joined himself to the party of the Sadducees.”  This high priest died one hundred and seven years before the Christian era.

Again (Antiq. lib. xx. e. 8, sect. 1), “This Ananus the younger, who, as we have said just now, had received the high priesthood, was fierce and haughty in his behaviour, and, above all men, hold and daring, and, moreover, was of the sect of the Sadducees.”  This high priest lived little more than twenty years after the transaction in the Acts.

XIX. [p. 282.] Luke ix. 51.  “And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before his face.  And they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.  And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.”

Joseph.  Antiq. lib. xx. c. 5, sect. 1.  “It was the custom of the Galileans, who went up to the holy city at the feasts, to travel through the country of Samaria.  As they were in their journey, some inhabitants of the village called Ginaea, which lies on the borders of Samaria and the great plain, falling upon them, killed a great many of them.”

XX. [p. 278.] John iv. 20.  “Our fathers,” said the Samaritan woman, “worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”

Joseph.  Antiq. lib. xviii. c. 5, sect. 1.  “Commanding them to meet him at mount Gerizzim, which is by them (the Samaritans) esteemed the most sacred of all mountains.”