Well......he was challenging jewish authority but they did not have any power to just kill him
they wanted him gone or to pipe down
the only one with authority was the romans, all they could do is say we have this rebel who
being trouble
All versions of AI state the same thing, there is no passage they said, we need to assassinate this carpenter guy who is
preaching
by all means if you can dig up a passage that said KILL do post
remember it was converted, the King James might have miss interpreted all of this