Did the jews really kill Jesus?

Answer 1

The Jews did not kill Jesus, even according to the Christian's New Testament itself.

In Matthew 27:2, Jesus had to be given over to the authorities, Rome, to be tried by the Governor of Rome, Pontius Pilate. 64 years before Jesus was born, the Jews had lost the land of Israel to Roman rule. The Jews had no power, no authority, to put anyone to death. Jesus was crucified. The Jewish way to give the death penalty was through stoning, as everyone knows. Crucifixion was a Roman form of execution, and they reserved it only for those who were seen as trying to overthrow the Roman government.

According to Matthew 27:37, the sign placed by the Romans over Jesus's head read, "Jesus Christ King of the Jews." The text of Matthew in 27:37 calls this sign, "the accusation." In other words, the crime for which Jesus was crucified was for being, or having the pretense to be, the king of the Jews, INSTEAD of the Roman emperor, and this is according to the Christian's own New Testament! (see also Matthew 27:27-29)

So why does the Christian New Testament make it appear that the Jews wanted Jesus dead? Simply because by the time that the New Testament stories about Jesus (the Gospels) were being written, from 60 C.E. onward, the Jews were in open rebellion against Rome. The Early Christians did not want to be identified with the Jews, and they did not want Rome to think that Christians worshipped a man who was crucified by the Romans. So they wrote their New Testament so as to absolve the Romans from the responsibility of putting Jesus to death. This went so far as to put words in the mouth of "the Jews," that said "the Jews" accepted responsibility for Jesus's death, and that the guilt for it would be on their childrens' heads forever! (Matthew 27:25).

Of course, this will not stop believing Christians from taking the New Testament at its word, and continuing to blame the Jews for Jesus's death.

BUT, how then can we Jews respond to such a question, "Did the Jews kill Jesus?"

The very question itself makes us respond with our own collection of questions:

Who are "the Jews" referred to in the question? Are they all Jews forever and ever? This would mean that if the people outside of the Huntsville, Texas, prison who cried FOR the death of Karla Faye Tucker (convicted of murdering her own kids i believe),were of Scottish origins, for example, then from now on all Scottish peoples, regardless of where they were at the time she was given the death penalty are guilty, forever, for her death?Remember that the people outside of the prison were not the ones, and could not have been the ones, who actually injected her with the fatal poisons. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of Jews in the world at the time of Jesus did not live in Israel, and would not have heard about any event taking place there for months after the event. News traveled so much slower then.

Lets pretend that "the Jews" back then really did kill Jesus (which they did not!). Since when are the children responsible, or culpable, for the sins of their parents? This very idea is UnBiblical! In Deuteronomy 24:16 it specifically states, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin." Furthermore, in Ezekiel 18:20 it states, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." So the very idea that if Jews killed Jesus, which they did not, then the Jewish People forever is responsible for that sin is both UnBiblical and nonsense.

Answer 2

This is too delicate a question for crass answers. So let's give it a little context.

Yes, "the Jews" killed Jesus, but the real question is who are "the Jews," and why did they kill him?

Were they normal everyday Jews. No. No more than normal everyday Americans killed MLK. The Jews that killed Jesus were the religious elite, who believed themselves to be enforcing the doctrines and guidelines of a faith thousands of years old. A faith tradition that Jesus threatened down to its bones.

Remember Jesus was a Jew among Jews, living under Roman occupation.

The Romans let it happen because their number one priority was keeping the peace (Pax Romana). Peace meant business, and business meant revenue from taxes for the Romans (as always, Money makes the world go 'round). They understood this whole thing as just a religious problem for the local people that needed to be sorted out quickly because it was disrupting the peace. They didn't really care what happened to Jesus.

There you go. Hope this answers your question (unless you were trying to inflame people, in which case I might have just wasted my time).

Answer 3

The Jews had him crucified but it was the Romans doing the work

Answer 4

Jesus died for everyone, not just the Jews. He died for me and for you.

Answer 5

No. You and I killed Jesus.

Answer 6

the Romans did

Answer 7

He let himself to be killed to fulfill his destiny and purpose.

Answer 8

why dont you just believe what you want to believe.