01-04-2022, 08:35 PM
So far as we know, not a single priest was a Pharisee. The rank and file priests tended to simple faithfulness, but the bigshots were Sadducees. Yet both of those groups took care of their families. Very few of the rank and file made a living from Temple service; most of them survived the same way everyone else did. Scribes and Pharisees were the only ones we know were pulling this stunt of using a Temple Trust fund. Everyone else naturally felt obliged to take care of aged family members. But as long as these scoundrels were alive, they got to use their own wealth. They didn't need their kids to support them; they would tend to set them up before making a trust.