In Easter Week, I am beginning to feel assaulted by the claim that: "The same crowds who cheered Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday were so fickle that 5 days later they were baying for His death", so often has it been voiced.Not true!
Jesus was arrested secretively at night; he was tried in clandestine fashion in the middle of the night; Pilate was dragged out of his bed; the crowd who 'bayed' were clearly all Sanhedrin members, scribes, levites and pharisees along with their families, friends and servants. It was a complex and well executed plot.
Being a holiday - Jesus had already been crucified before most people would have been up!
"The same people"? - Sorry. Not so.
