Certainly, the role of the Sanhedron--in particular, the role of the Sadducees, who deliberately hand-picked a Sanhedron and did not include those that they knew would stand up in Yeshua's defense (cf. Luke 23:51)--should not be glossed over. But neither should the myth that all of Jerusalem called for Yeshua's death be promoted. Pilate's courtyard would hold a few hundred at most, and Scripture is clear that this crowd was, like the court, packed and controlled by Yeshua's enemies among Israel's leadership (Mat. 27:20, Luke 23:1).
Making out the crowd at Yeshua's trial to be representative of "the Jews" as a whole is neither accurate nor fair.
Shalom!
Point well taken, and I apologize—I tried to do that by saying “Jews of Jerusalem” in my last sentence, but I didn’t differentiate well enough. And not even all of the Sanhedrin wanted Jesus killed. But this particular program didn’t mention that connection to the Crucifixion at all. It was all “the Romans.” And that’s inaccurate—it was the Sadduccees using the Romans to accomplish their desired end.
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