[Theo]

"The only role the Bible says the Pharisees have in the passion of Jesus is, in one case they try to warn him that there's a plot against his life," said Eugene Fisher....

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. (Matthew 12:14)

And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. (Matthew 21:45f)

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. (Matthew 22:15)

I could go on, but let it suffice to say that Eugene Fisher doesn't know Scripture.

[LiteKeeper]

mega-dittoes - it amazes me when "so-called" scholars don't know what any Sunday School kid knows - the Gospels!