"The Christian Bible very frequently steps on its own toe. We are told ... in Acts 5 that when Peter is brought before Gamliel, who we are told was the teacher of Paul, –Paul never makes this claim, but the author of Acts does– Gamliel in the Christian Bible, a book that will be very hostile to[wards] a Pharisee, one of the greatest rabbis of the time, period, ... the key point is that when asked what should be done with him, "Should he be punished?", Gamliel says "Send him away. If what he is teaching is of God, you killing him will do nothing, and if he is not of God it will fall away by itself." And it did. Peter's version of Christianity, his Christology, died a long time ago with the Abionites and so on. ... The key [point] that does come through in the text of the book of Acts –and the book of Acts is not trying to portray religious non-Christian Jews as pious– [and yet it comes through that] the Pharisees do not want to persecute Christians. The reason why Paul claims to be a former Pharisee, the reason why it is claimed for Paul by the author of Acts that he is a Pharisee, is because it lends credibility to his Christology. ... The book of Acts is not about the apostles but about Paul. It is that Paul's understanding, his Christology, wins, and Peter's version loses. That is why very quickly in the book of Acts ... Peter is taken off the stage and it is all about Paul to the end."