If you gathered everyone that was involved in writing the original old books of the Bible … they would look like hard core religious fanatics from Afghanistan and pretty much have the same mentality.
Jesus was likely one of a couple dozen 2-bit-Jewish mystics cropping up in the region. The Sanhedron were very much trying to stamp that particular wave of heretics out; in large part because many of them were building cults of personality in the same way televangelists grift their followers,
If you gathered everyone that was involved in writing the original old books of the Bible … they would look like hard core religious fanatics from Afghanistan and pretty much have the same mentality.
With a side of David Koresh thrown in.
Jesus was likely one of a couple dozen 2-bit-Jewish mystics cropping up in the region. The Sanhedron were very much trying to stamp that particular wave of heretics out; in large part because many of them were building cults of personality in the same way televangelists grift their followers,