“In all likelihood, a combination of Roman authority and a narrow circle of the Jewish ruling elites was responsible for his arrest and execution. Very importantly, rather than Jesus being rejected, arrested and executed by the “Jews” or the Jewish people, the final and fatal conflict was with the urban ruling elites who, rather than representing the Jewish people, were in fact oppressors of the Jewish people.”
Marcus J.
Borg, “The Search for Jesus”, 1994. P. 49.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca
