Did he not have the sins of the people put on him?
This was Passover. The lots were cast to determine which would be the sacrificial lamb without blemish and which would be the scapegoat who had the sins of the people put on him and which was then driven out to the town dump.
In the original Hebrew of the Torah, the Christian Old Testament’s references to Gehenna are mostly replaced by a different Hebrew word, sheol.
Sheol is not an explicitly religious term. In ancient Judea, when a city garbage dump grew too large, the authorities would burn it. The resulting fiery mess was called a sheol. In ancient Judean literature, a sheol, a mountain of fire, was used as a poetic metaphor for earthly death.
Gehenna, or Ge-Hinnom, was the name of ancient Jerusalem’s municipal landfill.
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