Good point. He wouldn’t necessarily have known they were planning to turn it over to Rome (which wouldn’t have given a rat’s ass about a Jewish religious matter anyway- “What’s a messiah?”).
Good point. He wouldn’t necessarily have known they were planning to turn it over to Rome (which wouldn’t have given a rat’s ass about a Jewish religious matter anyway- “What’s a messiah?”).
Of course, this is the Straight Dope of the matter.