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The sadducees were descended from the legitimate temple priests and according to Mosaic law had the rights to administer the temple rites.
The scribes were invented in Babylon and their only authority was that they could read old books. They also built up false traditions and interpretations based on nothing more than their own imagination, completely ignoring (and murdering) the numerous prophets that God sent to clarify things.
Also, the "law" that the scribes and pharisees taught was NOT legitimate because neither of them had any right to interpret the scriptures. In fact, Jesus roundly condemns pretty much everything they taught and furthermore condemned them for killing the prophets. Which prophets? We don't know, because they murdered them and didn't tell us about it.
It's a minor point but it's important to get it right. Remember that neither the scribes nor pharisees had any authority on anything to do with righteousness.
Actually, we do, its all the Prophets that were Martyred by the Jews (which is most of them, according to the Church fathers) because Jesus essentially says He has come to come to convict the present generation for the crimes of their Fathers, and because they would go on to commit the exact same crime against He who was Priest, Prophet, and King. The Bible itself doesnt specifically record which Prophets were murdered, (and there were multiple types of Prophets in ancient Judea, quite a few of which were either False Prophets or simply Singers of the Psalms who were also considered Prophets and who had whole Schools dedicated to them)
Oh, where do we learn about them, what they said, what they did?
> the Bible doesn't tell us
Thank you for proving my point.
It was never meant to be a comprehensive theological work to explain salvation. In fact, if you read what the authors wrote, they were quite adamant that no book could contain such a thing, and that it was necessary for men to connect with God to obtain his words from his own mouth. There is no other way.
The Bible is just an anthology, a collection of writings, writings that have little or no connection to each other. Someone decided a long time ago (not as long as you think) to put them together and consider them exclusively sacred writing, despite the fact that the books in the Bible reference other books NOT in the Bible as sacred writings as well!
This decision was made arbitrarily, by people who had no business making such decisions. What's worse, ever since the apostles (of the first century) died, everyone somehow got it in their heads that God could no longer speak, as if he had become deaf or mute or something. This is clearly contrary to the text. The fact of the matter is that the first and second century "Christians" seemed to be pining for recognition by platonic scholars and so perverted the gospel to try and make it seem more appealing to the prevailing "science" of the day. And in so doing, they threw the baby out with the bathwater.
The key doctrine, if there is any such thing, in the Bible is that God speaks to man and man should pay attention when he does. God sends prophets. It is the jew and other Satan followers who kill those prophets and reject their message. Faithful followers of Christ receive prophets and listen to what they have to say, just like they have done since the time of Adam.