So, the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ at the hands of the Jews comes down to a difference of opinion on how to “renew the Jewish people in their relationship with God.” The Pharisees felt that it was better for one man to die than for the people to perish, and who are we to say that killing Christ wasn’t seen as a good thing in their eyes? And if the testimony of John’s Gospel on the Pharisees is inaccurate, why should we believe John’s claim that Christ rose from the dead after John and St. Peter contemplated the empty tomb? Didn’t the Pharisees come up with a much more plausible explanation when they claimed that Jesus’s followers stole His body?