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It seems from following rabbinic customs, however, that most Pharisees were small landowners and merchants, not trained scribes. In Mark's view, Jesus' main opponents in Galilee were scribes, but, according to Matthew, they were Pharisees. A priest or priestess is a spiritual leader allowed to conduct the divine rituals of a religion, particularly as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more idols. They also have the power or authority to conduct religious rites, in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities.
