They wished the state and all public and political affairs to be measured and directed by the standard of divine law.
Their chief tendency was to resist all Greek or other foreign influences that threatened to undermine the sacred religion of their fathers, and they took their stand most emphatically upon divine law.  They wished the state and all public and political affairs to be measured and directed by the standard of divine law. FTP, identify this group which gained its name when John Hyrcanus was high priest of Judea, and whom Jesus condemned in the New Testament.
Their chief tendency was to resist all Greek or other foreign influences that threatened to undermine the sacred religion of their fathers, and they took their stand most emphatically upon divine law.  
Pharisees