The Pharisees were not the enemy of Jesus, but of Paul, a Roman citizen hired as a double agent to infiltrate the World Revolution of the Lily and the Rose. Paul founded a counter church that bid those captured in the Roman Slave World to pay their taxes and remain slaves.
Jon Rosamond
At the very same time with the forementioned revolt of the
Germans did the bold attempt of the Scythians against the Romans
occur; for those Scythians who are called Sarmatians, being a very
numerous people,transported themselves over the Danube into Mysia,
without being perceived; after which, by their violence, and
entirely unexpected assault, they slew a great many of the Romans
that guarded the frontiers;
Before the zealots burned Sephoris in 66 C.E., “their first impulse
once armed was to destroy the debt archives and revenge themselves
on those cities that administered their exploitation and
oppression.”
– John Dominic Crossan, The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and
Earliest Images (1998), p. 7
But a certain Judas, a Gaulanite from a city named Gamala, who
had enlisted the aid of Saddok, a Pharisee, threw himself into the
cause of rebellion. They said that the [tax] assessment carried
with it a status amounting to downright slavery, no less, and
appealed to the nation to make a bid for independence [Josephus,
ANTIQUITIES 18.4, LCL].
As for the fourth of the philosophies, Judas the Galilean set
himself up as leader of it. This school agrees in all other
respects with the opinions of the Pharisees, except that they have a
passion for liberty that is almost unconquerable, since they are
convinced that God alone is their leader and master [Josephus,
ANTIQUITIES
18.23, LCL].
Jews that were accused by Antiochus had any hand in it, but that all
was done by some vile persons greatly in debt,
who supposed that if they could once set fire to the market-place,
and burn the public records, they should have no
further demands made upon them. So the Jews were under great
disorder and terror, in the uncertain expectations
3. At the very same time with the forementioned revolt of the
Germans did the bold attempt of the Scythians against the Romans
occur; for those Scythians who are called Sarmatians, being a very
numerous people,transported themselves over the Danube into Mysia,
without being perceived; after which, by their violence, and
entirely unexpected assault, they slew a great many of the Romans
that guarded the frontiers; and as the consular legate Fonteius
Agrippa came to meet them, and fought courageously against them.
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