who was it that ordered jesus christ to be killed and why?

Answer 1

Technically it was the people. The people were offered a choice of who to let free. Baribus the crazed killer and rapist or Jesus. Pilate didn't want Jesus to be executed. However, the people did. As a result, Baribus, was released and Jesus was crucified.

Answer 2

This question is based on the politics of about AD 30. You would have to understand the culture to put the answer into the appropriate context. The Jewish church rulers at the time, led by Caiaphas the high priest, saw Jesus as a threat to their power and believed that he was leading the masses away from Judaism as they taught it. There was a small group of people who wanted him out of the way. The land was under Roman government, but there was essentially a treatise between the Romans and the rulers of the temple. The Romans enforced Roman law and the Sanhedrin enforced Levitical law. The Romans didn't care what happened in the temple as long as it didn't interfere with their rule. Caiphas managed to get the Romans involved, drummed up the support of the people of the crowd (who were in a culture that revered the priests and were taught to do what the priests said to do) and the end result was that the Romans killed him at the urging of the crowd who were puppeted by the Sanhedrin. Spin that how you want, but just don't accuse the "Jews." That's waaay too broad of a penstroke.

Answer 3

Pontius Pilate ordered the execution of Jesus.

Jewish authorities did not possess the power to execute criminals - that power belonged to Rome alone. Pontius Pilate, as the procurator of Judaea, was the person to whom the Sanhedrin and the high priest turned Jesus over when they arrested him.

Pontius Pilate, according to the Biblical account, found no fault in Jesus, but the Jews reminded him that Jesus claimed to be a king - and therefore was being disloyal to the Roman emperor. Treason was the offense for which Jesus was executed.

Answer 4

The governor at the time was Pontius Pilate, and Israel was merely a province of Rome (a vassal state). Many Jews (especially the Jewish leaders of the time) wanted Jesus killed because they thought that He was a dangerous "nationalist" Who will get Israel in trouble since some people saw Him as the Messiah, or the Anointed One Who will rescue Israel from her oppressors. This will surely antagonize the powerful conqueror, Rome, and get Israel in trouble. But no Jew had the right to execute anybody. Only the governor had the right to do that. So the Jewish leaders forced Pilate to mandate the death of Jesus.

So who killed Jesus? To tell you the truth, we all did.

Answer 5

Jesus Christ allowed Himself to be crucified so that through His sacrifice we can have salvation.

Pontius Pilate gave the final order, he was the head Roman official in charge. It was, however, ultimately God's plan so that anyone who believes n Jesus can be saved.

Answer 6

The Sanhedrin, the religious rulers of the Jews, lead by Caiaphas.
Jesus was perceived as a threat to their status quo, and therefore had to be eliminated.

What had started out as a method of seeking atonement from God through animal sacrifice had degenerated into a money-making scam spearheaded by the Sanhedrin. When a Jew came from far away to sacrifice his animals on the altar at the Temple in Jerusalem, he was told that his animals were blemished, and he had to purchase "spotless" animals from a local vendor. By manipulating the exchange rate of currency for the purchase, the "money-changers" made an incredible profit
from the transaction. It was this scam that drove Jesus to make a horse-hair whip and drive the money-changers from the Temple. In doing so, however, He infuriated the Sanhedrin, after which they began to plot His murder.

Answer 7

The Pharisees wanted to kill Jesus because first he healed on a Sabbath. The Pharisees are strict on the rules that they aren't as compassionate as Jesus. Another reason is that because Jesus calls God His Father saying like He is of equal to God. I don't know why the Pharisees didn't believe Him. I believe Jesus but anyway, at the end, Judas Iscariot gave Jesus away to the soldiers to be arrested and eventually killed. It was the people who suggested that He be crucified. The same people who welcomed Him when He went to Jerusalem. The citizens who praised Him and I don't get why. God bless you, hope I helped!

Answer 8

Pontias Pilate always comes off as the bad guy when he tried to protect Jesus by saying that "the man had done nothing wrong" and agreed to let him go. There was such an outrage that he let the crowd decide which person should be crucified... a common thief or Jesus...the crowd chose Jesus, and Pontias Pilate, afraid that they had made a grave mistake remarked that it was not his decision and he had no blood on his hands.

Answer 9

Okay. I believe that Jesus's death was ordered by God. I know that Pilate gave the people the option of Christ or the murderer and those to save the murderer. However, Jesus knew that he was to die for the sins of the world and told his disciples of his fate. God knew that Jesus was the only one that was pure enough to save us from our sins.

So I guess in a sense we can say that the sinners of the world, old and new, ordered the death of Jesus. I mean, He did die to say our sinful souls.

Answer 10

Pontius Pilate because he feared a riot among the Jews, which would have made his superiors question his ability to control the area he ruled (i.e., for political reasons--to save his job).

He tried to make himself look innocent by symbolicly washing his hands of the matter, but ultimately, he was the one who crucified Christ.