9.2.5 Key people in society during the time of Jesus

Which group the considered themselves a special, separate, religiously superior class of Jews.

• Zealots

• Pharisees

• Sadducees

• Money changers

Who tended to interpret God’s laws in strict, unbending ways that made the literal observance (or the ‘letter’) of the Law of Moses difficult for many people, particularly the poorer members of society.

• Pharisees

• Money changers

• Zealots

• herodians

Those who supported the Herods were called

• Zealots

• Sadducees

• Herodians

• Tax collectors

The kings in Galilee during the time of Jesus were the _________.

• Herods

• Heodians

• Zealots

• Pharohs

Which groups of people were religious and political enemies

• Pharisees and the Zealots

• The Herodians and the Zealots

• Herodians and the Pharisees

• Money changers and the Pharisees

Which group of people conspired to destroy Jesus – which shows how afraid they were of Jesus and how much his words and actions offended them

• The Pharisees

• The Zealots

• The Herodians

• Tax collectors

What kind of money could not be taken into the Temple?

• Jewish

• Pagan (i.e. non-Jewish)

Which group provided a necessary and important service to the Jewish worshippers at the Temple

• Tax collectors

• Money-changers

• Zealots

The Gospels indicate that in the time of Jesus many of which group of people took advantage of their control of this specialised market to charge outrageous prices to rich and poor alike.

• Tax collectors

• money-changers

• The Pharisees

• The Zealots

Which group of people were considered traitors during Jesus' time?

• The Herodians

• Money changers

• Tax-collectors

• The Pharisees