Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! The Sadducees are often compared to other contemporaneous sects, including the Pharisees and the Essenes. Josephus, in "Antiquities", contextualizes the Sadducees as opposed to the Pharisees and the Essenes. A group of scribes and Pharisees confronts Jesus, interrupting his teaching session. The three prominent religious parties were the Pharisees, the Essenes, and the Sadducees. The Sadducees rejected the Oral Torah as proposed by the Pharisees. The Pharisees and the Sadducees are historically seen as antitheses of one another. As a result, the Pharisees and Sadducees were formed. Not all Pharisees, nor all Jews of that time, were legalistic. Jesus' disciples even pick and eat grain on the Sabbath, contrary to the Pharisees. Rabbinical Judaism originates from the Pharisees of the Second Temple period. After this falling-out, Hyrcanus sided with the rivals of the Pharisees, the Sadducees. Jesus shares it with his disciples, the Pharisees and others. Jesus chastising the pharisees expecting to find life in writings instead of himself. In the Gospels, Jesus is often shown as being critical of Pharisees.