On 03-23-98 Keith Knapp wrote to Day Brown... 
 KK>...  And then there's that 
 KK> other incident where they killed a long-haired charismatic 
 KK> rabble-rouser, but swung it so that the blame was put on the 
 KK> Sanhedrin.  Sneaky, eh? 
Schoenfield's 'The Passover Plot', and Pliny's letters to Trajan 
don't suggest much Roman malevolence so much as simply trying to 
keep public order.  I doubt that Pontius Pilot ever gave Jesus a 
second thought; as you suggest, rabble rousers were all over the 
place, as Pliny makes pretty clear. 
 
Roman governors were literate and vain enough to seek notoriety. 
Had Pilot thought anything remarkable had happened in Jerusalem, 
he wouldda wrote a book; he was well enough known to get it sent 
around for serious consideration. 
 
He did not bother to blame the Sanhedrin; Jesus wasn't important 
enough.  That slander was concocted by Paul and the others so as 
to separate the Christians from the Jews, and make the new faith 
more agreeable to the sensibilities of a Roman power structure. 
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