So did the Jews kill Jesus or what?

Question

This isn't Oprah, it's Opera!

Answer 1

NO. We all did. He wasn't killed. He died and sacrificed Himself so that we could live and have life more abundantly.

Answer 2

Those who opposed Jesus killed him. His words and deeds were a threat to some in the Jewish elite, those of the Temple Mound. It was not the Jews who killed him, it was a few of the rich and powerful leaders who felt that his rising popularity among Jews and non-Jews, his embrace of the poor, the sick, and the gentiles, was a problem that could hurt their standings because he was preaching things that they would not do. These elite Pharases would not even walk on the same streets that common people walked on. They would walk on elevated bridges because they felt they were superior and closer to God. For them, Jesus was a serious threat, the original rebel, so to speak. So the few elite, who should not be confused as representing the ordinary Jews, wanted to destroy him in order to protect themselves. They convinced the Romans that Jesus was going to start a rebellion against them so they could arrest him. Then they spread lies to have him Crucified.

So basically, you have a very small group of elitists who happened to be Jewish that had the Romans do their work for them since they themselves could not stain their hands with his blood. Pilate was not convinced, but he let them make the decision because he did in fact fear a revolution.

It is wrong to blame Jews. It is wrong to blame Romans. It is right to blame power hungry hypocrites that did things for their own greed under a cloak of religion. It's the same type of power hungry hypocrites from all religions that are destroying the world today.

Answer 3

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 4

As far as I know, Jesus was born to die. He is God's sacrifice to pay for the rest man's sins. His death was planned and prophesized earlier. As far as the Jews (not all of them) wanting him dead, I think I remember reading that God closed their minds so that the prophesy and His sacrifice would be carried out. The first Christians were actually called Christian Jews (Jews who believe the Christ came) because the coming of the Messiah is actually a Jewish prophesy, except many Jews did not believe Jesus was the One they were expecting. So they are still waiting for Him. I think. I'm not an expert, though.

Answer 5

The only one that wanted Jesus killed was Satan in his blind madness and hatred for anything good.
Satan influenced and manipulated the hearts of the weak, those who were prideful and wanted Jesus out of the way.

Little did Satan know that by doing this Jesus would break the bondage of sin by becoming sin on the cross (taking on all the sins of the world- past present and future), dying for .those sins and raising up from the dead to defeat sin.

Satan hates us so much that his pride blinded him so Jesus could become our savior. We now have a path to eternity in Christ's plan for our salvation.

So, no, Jews didn't kill Jesus, it was our sinful nature which the devil stirs in us that led the human race to crucify Him.

Answer 6

The Jewish counsel and fundamentalists of the day rejected Him and incited the process, the Roman's carried out the execution.
The reality is that it doesn't matter what nationality or origin God had decided to reveal His Son through, Jesus came to earth to establish a new covenant between man and God and to be a sacrifice for the sins of man. He was meant to die.
A covenant is established by blood, it was the blood of Christ that brought salvation from the law of sin and death allowed freedom for all who would believe.

Answer 7

Yes, they did because they did not want a new religion to be born. Jesus was a jew but when he came with christianity, Jews made Romans attempt to crucify him. Jews do not beleive in christianiy or Jesus.

Answer 8

Whoever did actually physically kill Jesus was merely an instrument to achieve prophetic fulfillment. There were probably many people saved on the day that Jesus hung on that cross simply because their guilt drove them to repent as they watched Him die.

Answer 9

NO. We all killed Jesus. Specifically, it was the Romans who nailed him to the cross. Stop trying to fuel anti-semitism.

Answer 10

Jesus, Accepted death for all of us. He said "I have the power to lay down my life and to take it up again". He came to die for sin... all sin... my sin... and your sin. "Without the shedding of blood there is not remission of sin". While some "Jewish" leaders for their own power feared him and worked to have him killed, and The Romans were the instrument of sacrificing him, It was God Himself who gave His only Son to die that we might have eternal life. In essence, we are all responsible, and accountable through our sins.

Answer 11

Kenites, turned over Christ to the Romans