In old fashioned WW2 movies there was often the cliche of the good German. A more recent example was Oskar Schindler in the Schindler's list.
The NT seems to treat the Pharisees in a similar manner (of course the situation was less extreme in terms of numbers of people killed)
So we have "good" or goodish Pharisees like Nicodemus and Gamaliel (a leader of the Pharisees)
Pharisees who warn Jesus about Herod wanting to kill him (was Herod bored after getting rid of John the Baptist) in Lk 13:31
(though it seems the Pharisees were just trying to get Jesus to leave their area)
Pharisees who plot to kill Jesus e.g. Mk 3:6
I've read about two schools of Pharisees - that of Hillel and Shammai, but I don't get the impression these differences in attitude to Jesus and the early church stem from that.
Is this just natural variation you get in any group or is there something else going on?
The NT seems to treat the Pharisees in a similar manner (of course the situation was less extreme in terms of numbers of people killed)
So we have "good" or goodish Pharisees like Nicodemus and Gamaliel (a leader of the Pharisees)
Pharisees who warn Jesus about Herod wanting to kill him (was Herod bored after getting rid of John the Baptist) in Lk 13:31
(though it seems the Pharisees were just trying to get Jesus to leave their area)
Pharisees who plot to kill Jesus e.g. Mk 3:6
I've read about two schools of Pharisees - that of Hillel and Shammai, but I don't get the impression these differences in attitude to Jesus and the early church stem from that.
Is this just natural variation you get in any group or is there something else going on?