What was the crime that Jesus was accused of?

Answer 1

Blasphemy, a capital crime.

http://san.beck.org/GoodMessage/Jesus-Int-59.html

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=blasphemy&x=0&y=0

Amendment:

After further research, I'm seeing that this question is actually controversial. According to the gospels, Jesus was accused of blasphemy. Secular historians seem to suspect that this is inaccurate, and that jesus was actually accused of sedition:

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/james_still/jesus_trial.html

The evidence seems pretty strong that he was in fact accused of sedition, and furthermore that he knowingly performed a number of seditious acts. (See link above for details.)

One interesting thing about this article is that it appears to have been written by a non-believer in an attempt to discredit the gospels. However, one of the points being made--that Jesus was operating in a real world with political problems just like we have today, not just an oversimplified "spiritual" or "metaphorical" story--lends more credibility to the idea that these events really did happen (regardless of whether Jesus was actually "God").

This does not make any agument for or against the validity of the central biblical claims, however it is interesting to observe all of these political events taking place and imagine what it must have been like to live them.

Answer 2

Sedition : Sedition is a term of law to refer to covert conduct such as speech and organization that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often included subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws.

Because sedition is typically considered a subversive act, the overt acts that may be prosecutable under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another. Where those legal codes have a traceable history, there is also a record of the change of definition for what constituted sedition at certain points in history. This overview has served to develop a sociological definition of sedition as well, within study of persecution.

The difference between sedition and treason consists primarily in the subjective ultimate object of the violation to the public peace. Sedition does not consist of levying war against a government nor of adhering to its enemies, giving enemies aid, and giving enemies comfort. Nor does it consist, in most representative democracies, of peaceful protest against a government, nor of attempting to change the government by democratic means (such as direct democracy or constitutional convention).

Answer 3

The Sanhedrin accused him of blasphemy, because they said he claimed to be the son of God and King of the Jews. But since they couldn't impose the death penalty, they sent him on to the Romans, saying he was inciting the people to rebellion.

Answer 4

Blasphemy......because this pharisees and scribes could not believe the truth Jesus is spreading

Answer 5

Possesion with intent to distribute

Answer 6

Sleeping with underaged girls and boys. Sick stuff!

Answer 7

herosy.