Yes but they thought he was a fraud. In their minds and hearts, they thought they were doing the right thing.

If some guy came to your neighborhood and started telling people he was the messiah, you’d likely call the authorities too.

ETA John Stuart Mill wrote about this in his essay “Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion”

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These were, to all appearance, not bad men—not worse than men most commonly are, but rather the contrary; men who possessed in a full, or somewhat more than a full measure, the religious, moral, and patriotic feelings of their time and people: the very kind of men who, in all times, our own included, have every chance of passing through life blameless and respected. The high-priest who rent his garments when the words were pronounced, which, according to all the ideas of his country, constituted the blackest guilt, was in all probability quite as sincere in his horror and indignation, as the generality of respectable and pious men now are in the religious and moral sentiments they profess; and most of those who now shudder at his conduct, if they had lived in his time, and been born Jews, would have acted precisely as he did.

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Posted on 11/24/23 at 9:55 am to 4cubbies

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Yes but they thought he was a fraud. In their minds and hearts, they thought they were doing the right thing.

If some guy came to your neighborhood and started telling people he was the messiah, you’d likely call the authorities too.

But what if you had tradition passed down for centuries that should have told you to expect the guy coming to your neighborhood.

And even further, if you studied it properly, you would have known the EXACT day, time and place he’d arrive.

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