Episode 5 of Season 2 Pharisees were religious zealots, the most enthusiastic of their Jewish faith and traditions. It is easy to see them as “bad guys.” This leads Deacon Larry Vaclavik to think about the circle of God’s friends and who is included in that circle? What God’s relationship with the Pharisees was? Scripture scholars tell us that there is one group of disciples and they were all cut from the same cloth but there were many different types of followers of God.