I don't remember him walking up to Pontius Pilate and saying "Here I am, crucify me so I may die for everyone else!" I believe the bible says one of his own turned him in.
2006-08-23 08:41:59 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good point. Why is Judas considered to have betrayed Jesus when Jesus supposedly 'knew' that he would be crucified? Isn't that what he wanted? To say that he was betrayed implies that he was hiding, therefore he didn't want to die.
2006-08-23 08:44:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
My brother Jesus died willingly for the sins of man, and which man continues. He answers not the prays of sinners, young nor old, for what be the use since you will not heed his teachings, or the teachings of his father. You still wish to destroy yourselves. Pontius, was just a man with a dilemma, and he chose the wrong side. It is always hardest to choose the right side, or no side at all.
I think it is time that you yourself pick up one of the 178 version of the book, or better still the Koran, from which the bible was translated, and read with your own lips the word scribed there. The meaning has never changed, only the translation has corrupted the view's of man. Man Corrupts Man, unfortunately he corrupts the world as he flourishes.
2006-08-23 08:52:36 · answer #2 · answered by Insight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Roman's what? What thing belonging to the Roman?
Did you perhaps mean "the Romans," which would be a plural and not a possessive?
If I remember my bible correctly, there was at least one moment where Jesus was contemplating the whole martyrdom question, but eventually resolved to make this sacrifice for the good of humanity. So I would say "willingly" is an apt description.
2006-08-23 08:46:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Short answer: Jesus died willingly. But Jesus wasn't looking for his death.
Long answer: Jesus, bound by the limits of humanity but touched by the fact that he is also divine, knew that he had a mission to spread the word and love of God to everyone. He wasn't preaching an easy message; that message angered some and intimidated others. Jesus wasn't an idiot - he knew that if he kept on going about as he had been (especially in Jerusalem) that he would eventually have to deal with either the Romans or the Jewish leaders. He knew what happened to his cousin John, who was beheaded. But Jesus freely chose to stick to his guns and live out his mission. He didn't back down, even when it meant he was going to suffer and die for it.
2006-08-23 08:46:43 · answer #4 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible does say that he was pointed out by Judas in the garden of Gethsemane.
He did not walk up to Pontius Pilate and turn himself in.
He was hated by the Jewish governing body of the Sanhedrin because of his preaching.
The Roman government didn't care one way or the other about Jesus but they did not like the fact that the Sanhedrin wanted Jesus eliminated.
We are led to believe that the sacrifice was willing, but there is an interesting question raised by His prayer to His Father in the garden of Gethsemane.
He prayed that the cup of death might pass from Him and further prayed, ". . . nevertheless not MY will, but THINE be done." (Matthew 26:39)
This suggests that he was not willing to suffer His Passion, but that He would OBEY His Father's will and not His own.
2006-08-23 08:54:04 · answer #5 · answered by Temple 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is clear that He knew what was coming, and that it was foretold. He could have avoided it, buut didn't. He was willing but not wanting. He was compelled by love and obedience to allow himself to experience the horror. He predicted His own death repeatedly, and it was predicted elsewhere, so He could simply have taken a different path. And though He knew the outcome, He went anyway.
John 8:28
So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.
Hebrews 7:27
"27Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself."
2006-08-23 08:54:27 · answer #6 · answered by Just David 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The crucifixion fable is so absurd it can't possibly be true. 1st century Rome was a shining example of the rule of law. No Prefect would have dared to crucify a man simply because an angry mob demanded it, nor would the mob have gotten away with such disorderly conduct.
Pilate would have sent his soldiers in against the mob. To kowtow to an angry mob like that would have been an intolerable show of weakness no official of Rome could expect to survive.
If there was a Jesus character and if he was really crucified, it's because he was found guilty of some actual crime such as treason.
2006-08-23 08:47:52 · answer #7 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He died willingly, although He did ask of the Father to let it pass by His lips, but He also said, not His will be done but the Father's will be done. And to stop the confusion about the Trinity with that statement, remember that while Jesus walked the earth He was here in human form, and the Creator, and Comforter were still in Heaven.
2006-08-23 08:46:09 · answer #8 · answered by pooh bear 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ died willingly so that all those who accept Him could be restored to a right relationship with our Creator.
Don't just read a verse here and a verse there - read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. I assure you that it will be the best thing you ever do in your entire life!
F.Y.I. - Jesus Christ is the only person who ever had His biography written BEFORE He was ever born. Imagine that!
There are more than 300 prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures telling the details.
2006-08-23 08:51:36 · answer #9 · answered by JOYfilled - Romans 8:28 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. During his Last Supper, he both predicted his betrayal, and used the bread and wine as symbols of his blood and body, indicating that he would be sacrificed as a lamb under Jewish tradition.
2. He prayed to his Father in the Garden of Gethsemene, asking if there was any other way for "his will" to be done?
3. Assuming Jesus' divinity, he could have influenced the mind of Pilate and the bloodthirsty crowd, or even commanded legions of angels to counterattack.
He knew what was going to happen, was aware of his mission, and executed it anyways, depite his personal misery.
2006-08-23 08:52:29 · answer #10 · answered by Polymath 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just saying stuff that might threaten Rome or the Pharisees was as good as asking for it. Use your common sense.
Dying on the cross was an inevitable result of dong what Jesus did and he would have had to accept that before he even got baptized.
Think about it now. Imagine a second coming and he starts to criticize every powerful institution on Earth. He condemns Rome for their wealth while people starve, America and the UK for warmongering. Al Qaeda for mass murder and opposing the teachings of Islam......
Do you honestly believe that people wouldn't plot his assassination very quickly? If he began with that path, there would only ever be one conclusion to it - death. That's the way it's always been.
Of couse he died willingly.
2006-08-23 08:58:08 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋