they were Pharisees by with whom they socialized and with whom they OPPOSED and by what THEY PREACHED AND SAID AND DID. Jesus
was around Pharisees all his life and they "HATED HIM AND WANTED
TO KILL HIM" <<<<what a joke----what was stopping them? the romans
would not care. The Pharisees were INCENSED over the presence of
money changers in the temple courtyard. Jesus just decided to
do the Pharisees a BIG FAVOR. The Pharisees and Caiaphas hated
each other-----so Caiaphas just decided to do the Pharisees a big favor?
Jesus quoted HILLEL the Pharisee Talmudist INCESSANTLY-----because
Pharisees hated him?
You still haven't shown me a Scripture that verifies Jesus and John the Baptist were Pharisees .
I just did. You seem to want the answer from the book written under the auspices of the EMPEROR OF ROME as a source. Historically--the romans HATED THE PHARISEES ----in fact the emperor whose word
you trust EXPELLED ALL JEWS FROM JERUSALEM, completely disarmed them and wrote the laws upon which the Inquisition was based
and your pal ADOLF LIKED so much that he included them in HIS
NUREMBURG LAWS which legalized genocide. It was CONSTANTINE
that came up with the idea of marking jews with the color yellow----the same guy that commissioned the writing of your "bible" To understand the NT---you have to KNOW something about the times and the people
who wrote it. It was also the Romans who crucified Jesus----and
tens of thousands of other jews-------and had to deal with the PARADOX
of suddenly making the same kind of jew they hated into THEIR
NEW "GoD". If you do KNOW-----you can extract a very credible Jesus
from that mess that Constantine made of the scriptural writings available
to him. The filth perpetuated by the "holy" roman empire had nothing to
do with the person ---Jesus. Jesus on his own is just another jewish
victim of roman perversity