What is Jesus had not been crucified in Jerusalem?

Question

I'm speculating that Pontius Pilate, who according to the Christian Gospel was hesitant to execute Jesus, instead sends Him to Rome, even though He wasn’t a citizen of the Empire. I’m guessing that this would be a compromise that the Pharisees would tolerate, while Pontius Pilate would be able to keep his conscience clean. What to you think would be the consequences of this? Feel free to go into details.

Please do not reply with an answer that deals with this as a history speculation. I’m simply posing a purely hypothetical situation and do not intend any offence. Thank you in advance.

Reasonable answers so far. Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, what if Jesus really didn't die at all? That question is seriously speculated nowadays anyway.

Religously He is needed as dead on the cross. Although religiously the whole death doesn't make sense because His followers really attain nothing to it. They think they do, but the act as they see it is illogical. He died for the sins of the world, but not really all of them and they still have guilt of sinning? Not making sense. They don't see the whole ending of one kind of world and the beginning of another. From law and sin to grace and perfection. For the world.

What I understand is that Jesus had it all figured out. He knew He was the son of God, but He knew that everyone was. He knew he did not have to follow laws and he knew he was inseperable from God. He knew his thoughts had power to change the world. As all of ours do. I think his death was a symbol and an attempt to release people from Judiasm. But it only changed it into Christianity.

If he made belief in him a law, and then fulfilled the law, then is it required? No.

It was to implement a state of mind. To impute grace onto the world from a God that was horrible and feared. Was God really that way? No, but that is what religion made him to be over the years of power and manipulation using God as an excuse.

Jesus' death was to realease people from their state of mind. To show that, OK the law is strict and evil and excludes everyone. Now here is something that will include everyone.

Did he really sacrafice himself to get a message across? Did he really die? He didn't need to. Because God is what He is and we are what we are whether Jesus was here or not.

But, what would have happened if that was the known fact- if that was the story, if Jesus taught and lived and taught some more? Maybe it would have been better. Maybe there would be no Christianity screwing up the message. Maybe there would just be a lot of enlightened people walking away from religion. He had a lot of followers. If they reverred him as a God, then there would still be a religion behind it no matter how he died.

How did prophets of other religions die? Was there death significant to the salvation of the world? People will make religion out of anything. Jesus came to end religion and a new one began. A horrible fearful manipulative seperative religion from a man who was to symbolize the perfectness and oneness of the world without law or belief.

I cannot fathom what the religion would be like, but people desire to have laws and punishment and favor and reward. Most of the human race cannot fathom total and complete grace.

I think He died on that cross. Because I cannot see that His teachings would have died off, besides the small amount of writings of Paul that we have. (please not that Paula and the apostles did NOT agree on the teachings of Jesus!)

But does it matter to me whether He died or lived? No. Like I said, all is as it is. Jesus didn't really change it, he just wanted us to change our minds.


(Definition of repentance: to change your mind)

Answer 2

In those time Jerusalem was under Roman power. And Pilate's wife and himself knows Jesus is Innocent. And he doesn't want Jesus' blood in his hands while thinking of the people getting angry if it will not happen. Yes, the pharisees are the ones who initiated the riot. And they were very happy about that. They are the real reason why Jesus was crucified. They initiate it, they convinced Judas to sell Him to them and they are the ones who beat Him up till the end. And they didn't stop they continued by saying that Jesus didn't rouse from the dead. That's why the Jews don't believe Jesus, the very place where He walked and lived. Hope I helped you.

Answer 3

I don't think Jesus would've went to Rome, he would most likely insist on staying with his own people. And if he isn't a Roman citizen, why would they take him to Rome? Pilate considered him a local issue, and dealt with the issue locally.

And even then, the Jewish leaders of the day wouldn't like that too much anyway, because they felt that as long as Jesus was alive, he would pose a threat to not just them, but all of humanity, hence why they did what they did to ensure Jesus would die.

Answer 4

Interesting question.Following Jesus' path,had he not been murdered by decree he would have continue speaking the truth more people would have believed,other people who were oppressing the poor would have gotten upset and before you know it,another trial or attempt on his life.There have been others who have tried to make people aware that there is a creator and that creator loves us and wants us to know Him.(I say him because society sees the father as the protective figure.At least until recently.I believe The Creator is neither male or female but ,is portrayed as such so we humans can attempt to wrap our little minds around the concept of a creator.)
There are forces working against such enlightenment .
When people are kept in the dark and in fear,strange, things happen to the mind.
If one really knew The Creator,one would find it hard to believe The Creator would send us to a fiery place to suffer for an eternity for mistakes we make in a period of time that is almost unmeasurably short,for an eternal being.Does that make any sense?Could you torture your worst enemy day after day after day to a point that you would have to keep your enemy alive in order to continue to inflict pain?
Jesus would have been murdered. Had it not been in Jerusalem then in England or Paris or New York.
Look at what has happened to those who have tried to carry on the work of Jesus.I'm not referring to the oppressive religions that are spreading lies about The Creator.Those are the Pharisees and Sadducees class.I mean those trying to help people understand there is hope and The Creator did not intend for us to live as we are living now.
This is certainly"real" but it's not the "real life".

Answer 5

Christianity is based on Jesus dying a very violent and very public death . Remove that from the equation and what do have left ? An obscure prophet that dies in obscurity a long way from home.
Jesus commit ed what today we would call copacide. Like anyone who commits copacide knows if you push the powers that be far enough they will respond violently. Jesus needed this ending to the story so badly that he had his good friend Judas help him.

Answer 6

Well what if Snow White had never eaten the magic apple, It would screw the whole story up. Jesus uncrossed? What, he lives out his life retired in a Roman Villa and chokes to death at age 94 on a grape seed, hardly the thing to start one of the bloodiest religions in human history on!!

Answer 7

Jesus was a small-time criminal in a backwater province of the Roman Empire. No one in the city of Rome knew who he was or cared, and had they sent him there, he would have died as a virtual unknown just as he did in Jerusalem.

The Romans executed a LOT of people, and Jesus was just another one. In fact, he was so unimportant to the people of the time that no record of his life or death exists (outside the single source of oral and later written stories we call the Bible).

Answer 8

well if jesus was sent to Rome, i believed he would have been killed there anyway. i highly doubt jesus would have stayed silent as his people were dying. he would have probably walked into the senate, make a big speech, the guards are sent in and he is killed.

Answer 9

No matter who would have done it - Jesus would have definately been put to death.
That was God the Father's plan - that his son would die for us.

It does not matter which government official agreed to the execution.