This needs to be said over and over. Even the Christians on this thread keep saying 'the Jews' insisted that Pilate execute Christ.
NO!
A small number of Jewish leaders so insisted. The reason they insisted was that every time Christ showed his face in public, thousands of Jews were showing up and thousands were slowly accepting that something huge and utterly without precedent was happening in their time and their place.
He fed the 'multitude.' The multitude didn't just happen to be there. They were there to see Jesus. The apostles were Jews.
So my quibble is with the terminology 'the Jews.' The Jews didn't do anything as a group. They acted as individual men and women who are free to accept or reject salvation. Some did. Some didn't. Some things never change.
Actually, when it came to the Jewish religious leaders, the majority argued to have Jesus killed and a minority opposed it.