I’m Jewish and a new believer in Jesus. I’ve been reading the gospels and searching the Internet for answers to Bible questions and your site came up in response to another question I had. So I’ve just been reading through your articles.

I kept thinking about how the people had already welcomed Him and knew He was the Messiah and they had seen Him heal and then they gleefully called for His blood a week later! That seemed incomprehensible. I thought it just had to do with the hardened hearts of all the Jews that occurred at that moment so that the scripture could be fulfilled. Anyway, this makes so much sense, they were different groups of Jews, the latter group who called to crucify Him being the supporters of their corrupt and envious leaders (chief priests, Sadducees and Pharisees). Part 1 is great too, the historical background is important to understand the corruption of the temple sellers and why Jesus was so angry at them.

Great site, great articles, thanks!

I also think that one can show by comparison with the same story in the other 3 gospels that John uses the term “the Jews” to refer to Jewish leaders. But I was not able to do this and my synopsis of the gospels is packed.