I'm not familiar with these characters, but I did find the scene:

"What kind of person are you?" is what he asked.

What's the story here with Sadducees and Pharisees? I'm not a Christian so this level of minutiae is well beyond me.

It seems logical to keep a religious cult from stealing a body and claiming that their leader had risen from the dead, at least from a tactical perspective of an establishment force fighting an anti-establishment group who just had a martyr created. It sounds like the individual in black is, frankly, using the pagan Romans as independent observers. The followers of Jesus could rationalize as the individual in black describes.

What was these individual's scheme?

I'm not familiar with these characters, but I did find the scene:

"What kind of person are you?" is what he asked.

What's the story here with Sadducees and Pharisees? I'm not a Christian so this level of minutiae is well beyond me.

It seems logical to keep a religious cult from stealing a body and claiming that their leader had risen from the dead, at least from a tactical perspective of an establishment force fighting an anti-establishment group who just had a martyr created.

What was these individual's scheme?