Not quite, at least in denouncing the temple money lenders and similar corrupt practices he would actually be denouncing the Sadducees who were allied with the tribal hereditary priestly establishment, the Pharisees were then the challengers who wanted status to be awarded based on scholarly merit, but the Pharisees survived the destruction of the temple and the Sadducees didn't so from then on the doctrinal (then still considered same religion) conflict with the early christians was between them and it makes sense that this what would be recorded in the early Christian texts.