[Cronos]

I doubt you could say “the masses” — more specifically the crowd gathered in front of Pilate. This could have been a specially bought crowd, yes “bought” by Cleophas etc.

[Iscool]

I doubt you could say “the masses” — more specifically the crowd gathered in front of Pilate. This could have been a specially bought crowd, yes “bought” by Cleophas etc.

Or it could have been a local troop of GirlScouts posing as the religious leaders of Israel, eh??? Or it could have been a stranded group of Klingons angry at Jesus for not revealing the location of the StarGate...