Originally Posted by IndyCA35
What absolute rubbish. The Jews didn't crucify Jesus. The Romans did. The Roman government worked closely with the Jewish "deep state" of those times to eliminate a threat, as they saw it, to the whole system. The great mass of Jews had nothing to do with the crucifiction.

Three hundred years later the Roman Emperor decided he could use Jesus as a symbol to win a civil war and made Christianity the state religion. Those who didn't go along were put to death. Since it would have been embarrassing to blame the Empire for Jesus's death, the Romans promulgated the story that the Jews did it. Easy to sell that narrative to ignoramuses who can't read very well.

if the Jewish leaders had not brought false charges against Jesus, Rome would have cared nothing about Jesus.
In fact, Pilate was politically pressured to do so.
With a few blunders that he had made, he certainly didn't need another bad report.