every telling of the story depicts the sanhedrin as people who'd gladly accept their own children being sacrificed over letting jesus live and accepting no from pilate. literally every telling of the story i have heard in church makes the sanhedrin out to be the ones responsible due to mob rule, some tellings even imply that the sanhedrin would have rather stormed pilate's throne, taken his authority for themselves, and sentenced jesus themselves before accepting no from pilate. it really makes you ask, if pilate was so against it, why didn't he just say no? clearly something was scaring him, probably meaning his life would be in danger if he did not execute jesus. from who?
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