[davidmartin]

i think the scribes and pharisees just means 'religious people' in general, those folk are always trouble and pop up in every religion and not just in religion, you can find 'em everywhere. Self appointed experts. So Jews did nothing to Jesus, just these type of folk that can be annoying or actually quite despicable - the unfortunate thing is it was preferable to blame Jews rather than recognise these same types, or shall I say, the authorities of Christianity WERE these same types, of course they blamed Jews to avoid the obvious condemnation they deserved themselves!