"alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> "gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> >
> > Charges were blasphemy and treason.
>
> Pilate said, (not word for word) something like, this is the same man that you
> welcomed just so many days ago and now you want him killed, explain this
> insanity to me. The one previously speaking didn't know what to say, another
> steps forward and says, you have not heard the worst of his crimes, he broke
> our Sabbath laws.
>
> Now granted how vague that is, but coupled with the notion that no one wanted
> him until the temple incident occurred and he was arrested 3 days afterwards,
> it is an easy step to believe that if he just went on a picnic that day instead
> of ...
>


No one wanted him killed before that? The chief priests and Pharisees were out
to get him before the temple-cleansing.  We're asked to accept that the text
makes no philosophical sense because of details, the details being not actually
from the text but a parody of it.

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