text:  The negative aspect of religion. There were four primary religions, if you will, during Jesus' time, or expressions of religion in the Jewish environment during Jesus' day. There were the Pharisees, there were the Sadducees, there were the Essenes, who were very ascetic in their approach to God. And then, of course, there were the Zealots. There were those who were Jewish but wanted to overthrow the Roman government. So the four kind of folks are groups of people, sexed, we might say, during this particular time that Jesus dealt with.