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Ok actually you have a fair point Nate, but that goes against the whole point of the NT, Jesus was betrayed by his own people, he took the sacrifice for his own people, and therefore took it for everyone.
And even if they had no power, that doesn't change anything, because the Romans still asked the pharasies what should happen to Jesus, becuase he was their people, and they had the most political power over their own people anyways.
If you think about it this way, the persicution of Jesus would have made the Jews go up in an uproar if it wasn't a Jewish descion, and weren't the pharasies the ones making reasons for the Romans to persucute Jesus.
Ok, I've never read the Bible, so I may be wrong.
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You've more or less stated what the NT says but the point of my last post was that the known history of the time conflicts with that reading.
I really don't want to insult your beliefs (and I know how insulting it is to have someone deride my own holy text) so only read further if you're interested in alternative viewpoints.
The people who brought Jesus to the Romans were the priests in the temple; Sadducees.
70+ years later the Sadducees were gone.
The early Judeo-Christians were persecuted by the Pharisees, who did not approve of the changes they were making to the religion.
The gospel writers were promoting the religion to Romans and needed to make someone other than Pontius the bad guy of the story and thus blamed the Pharisees.