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I wasn't thinking of the "crimes" he was crucified for, but the countless other smaller transgressions (working on the Sabbath, etc.) that the Pharisees needled him about all the time.

It is interesting to compare the four Gospels. The authors each had a specific goal in mind, and a specific audience. Matthew, for example, was focused heavily on a Jewish audience, and includes many things designed to convince Jews that Jesus had a legitimate claim to being the Messiah. It's no accident the first part of the chapter is a geneology. The Messiah had to be shown to be of the line of David.

Luke was directed more toward Gentiles, and some have said it was written by the same person who wrote much of the Acts of the Apostles, which, as you pointed out, really brought forward the universality of Christianity.

John was heavy into the spiritual stuff.

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