Rodkinson says, in the Babylonian Talmud intro, that the Pharisees are now Rabbis.
This is what Jesus prophesied would happen to Him, who would do it, and why.
Matthew 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the Son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill Him, and let us seize on His inheritance.
21:39 And they caught Him, and cast [him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him].
21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard His parables, they perceived that He spake of them.
The kingdom has been given to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel {v.43}. Since the Divided Kingdom, Israel has been ONLY the 10 Northern Tribes. Today, Judah/Benjamin/Levi has no more to do with the Kingdom of Heaven than she did with 10-Tribed Israel.
This is what will happen to the slaughtered flock:
Matthew 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Daniel 2:45 Whereas thou sawest that a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it beat to pieces the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold
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Whomever, from the 3-tribed southern nation of Judah, shall fall on the stone and be broken-hearted, will not be ground to powder along with the Pharisees. In the days of the New Testament, the multitude did what the Pharisees told them to do...