- Saul/Paul’s parents were Pharisees.
- They followed both The Written Torah and the Oral Torah
- The believed in a resurrection and a soul after death of the body.
- The believed in a coming Messiah and his resurrection.
- Believed in reward and punishment after death.
- Rabbinic Judaism came out of the Pharisees and Orthodox Judaism
- Established the Sanhedrin
- Showed renewed applications to daily life of the law.
- Adapted law after destruction of the temple.
- One of the most important and influential religious and political parties of Judaism in the time of Jesus
- There were more Pharisees than Sadducees (according to Josephus, Ant. 17.2.4 (17.42) there were more than 6,000 Pharisees at about this time) Note from NET bible.