the modern Saduccees?

Condeming the actions would be very Jewish. It would also go along with the fact that the early christians were reaching out to those who could not be considered 'clean' enough to enter the temple. (the blind, the lame, and the diseased). It also would go along with the warning not to 'Pray in public so all can see you' (which I read as don't make a big show on how religious you are, but rather just be religious in your own heart. Don't be pious for society, be pious for yourself.)

Condsidering that the Sadducee's were older than the Pharisees , calling them 'modernists' is amusing.

Yes they were. Ecclesiatics is skeptical about a ressurection too.For that matter, in the first 39 books of the tanakh, resurrection was only hinted at 3 times.. Two of those references are in Isaiah, and one is at the end of the book of Daniel. Altought Eziekel does mention it, it is meant metaphorically. Resurrection is not mentioned at all in the Torah, so it is a later introduction in to the Jewish religion, rather than an older one.The Sadducees were actually representing the conservative, orthodox thought on that. The concept probably came into Judaism via Persia, and the Zorasterians