(January 16, 2012 at 3:48 am)Godschild Wrote: That makes no sense at all, just what point are you trying to make with those verses. All that you have shown is the Jewish leaders hated Jesus.
No, it is a bit more than that, although you are close.
He is pointing out that the fictional Jews in the story are much more evolved than earlier dipictions of the jew fictional characters, suggesting that a great amount of time had elapsed so that the Christian identity became much more distinct from Christianity's original source of proto Jewish/Roman Gnostic-mystics.
I tend to agree. The fictional Jesus character seems much more refined in John as well.