There's a drop for that:
So the internet is arguing over who killed Jesus. Fun times.
Religious leaders pleaded with Roman government to kill a man that was upending their religious control over the people.
Those religious leaders were made up of the 12 tribes of Israelites, not just one specific tribe.
Pilate "washed his hands" realizing he was about to lose control of the mob. That's what belief does; it creates mobs.
The circumstances around all of this became a religion that took an empire in an entirely different direction, and gave humanity a nifty matrix for a couple thousand years.
Pretty good it happened that way, lest we'd all be speaking Arabic, right now.