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÷b÷e|p  there was much greater insta"eli
ty.  Successive Rwman governors found   
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      J
  Many of them - Pontius Pilate for 
 instance - failed to grasp that the rel
igion of the Jews imposed 
onditions.  TZ
ginated in the angry Jewish reaction to 
b Q
rnor of Syria, in 6 A.D.  There {as 
 a strong Jewish tradition that counting
 the people was against the 
 God (c.f. 2 Samuel 24: 10-14).  The p5r
pose of the Zealots 
f the yoke of Roman power.  The movement
 originated in GJ
st have encountered many of them. 
Interestingly, one of his disciples was 
called Simon the Zealot.)  P
Pilate had pagan religious s:mbols stamp
ed on the coinage and 