but yet you said,
“Two thousand years later and the Jewish leaders still hate Jesus. Some things never change.”
Do you not see the words, Jewish leaders? I do not understand what your complaint is.
Pontius Pilate said that he found no cause of death in this man, Jesus of Nazareth, but the “leaders” of the Jews snookered him into agreeing with them that Jesus must die, on the pretext that Jesus claimed to be a king. Allowing him to get away with that would be construed by the Jewish leaders as insulting the Roman Emperor, and put Pilate at risk for arrest and execution. Ergo, in self defense Pilate sent Jesus to the cross, even though under Roman law there was not reason to do so.
So, who was responsible, ultimately, for Jesus being put to death?