Ok...
There was no focused intentional ongoing hatred of Jesus by the Sanhidrin (Ruling Jewish council).
Because of Christianity most people are under an illusion that Jesus was the non-stop talk and focus of all of Israel as to whether He was the Messiah or not.
That isn't true.
Of all the many proclaimed "messiahs" running around during this time period the Jesus that is worshipped today was the least successful of them all when counting followers. The most that ever collected at one time was 8,000...and it was just for lunch. The other two we know for sure about had 15,000 and 25,000 men armed and ready to fight.
No, the religious leaders including the Sanhidrin had an ongoing, intense hatred of Rome and Roman society due to the Hellenization that came with them. The religious leadership chose Jesus as a political football to use as a wedge to separate the Jews from the Romans and to say that Rome was killing their prophets. The religious leaders thought nothing of Jesus except that He was always going to be too unimportant to really matter at all.
(Little did they know and realize until it was way too late)
you made a few valid points---but not many and in general you scored a big miss. Your big
miss was .... "the religious leadership, chose Jesus as a political football to use
as a wedge to separate the Jews from the Romans and to say that Rome was killing their
prophets" There is absolutely NOTHING about the quoted statement that holds any
reality at all. You got it right when you said that he was considered unimportant ----so
unimportant, in fact, that nobody talked about him or wrote about him at all----with a tiny
exception of some stuff MUCH LATER-----very tiny. My very own hubby got the writings
of those days shoved down his throat as a child and still does not know who JESUS was.
What is true is that as a christian you were given the impression that JESUS is and was a
big topic for jews and even the talmud bats him around-----NOPE. He was a big topic for ME
because I grew up in a christian town, got yanked to SUNDAY SCHOOL with friends and there
learned that JESUS is a topic for jews---quite a joke. As for Yeshiva boy hubby---HE NEVAH HEARD OF HIM. Every year I remind him of the difference between Easter and Christmas.
In order to help your understanding, it is important that you know that Hubby was
born in a VERY traditional community of Jews in a SHARIAH SHIT HOLE. They knew about
a guy named Muhummad. I will add that the jews of those days did not need to be
propagandized to despise the Romans and LOTS of the jews in power were ROMAN APPOINTEES---including King Herod and most of the Sanhedrin and the tax collectors. Religious leaders
were people like HILLEL----who precedes Jesus----Jesus quotes him INCESSANTLY