There ya go. Mel Gibson the fifth evangelist!!! What in the world did Christians do before this benighted movie? How did we get along with only the four gospels as written? How could God have waited so long to send us his ONLY ANNOINTED FILMMAKER. Yes old Mel has really shaken up the Jews like no one else before not even the evangelists themselves. But I think you are incorrect. It was the devil walking behind the Jewish crowd that shook them up.
I sort of liked the devil character myself. But it could have been left out of the movie easily enough with no harm to the story. I think what irks the Jewish critics is how craven and manipulative Caiaphas comes across in Mel's movie, compared to Pilate, a weak but honest administrator, just trying to do his job.