Why did the Pherisees want Jesus to DIE?

Question

He said something to them. They didn't like it. They wanted to stone him on the spot. What was it?

Answer 1

The Scriptures reveal that the Pharisees fasted twice each week, tithed scrupulously (Matthew 9:14; Mark 2:18; Luke 5:33; 11:42; 18:11, 12), and did not agree with the Sadducees in saying that “there is neither resurrection nor angel nor spirit.” (Acts 23:8) They prided themselves on being righteous (actually, self-righteous) and looked down on the common people. (Luke 18:11, 12; John 7:47-49) To impress others with their righteousness, the Pharisees broadened the scripture-containing cases that they wore as safeguards and they enlarged the fringes of their garments. (Matthew 23:5) They loved money (Luke 16:14) and desired prominence and flattering titles. (Matthew 23:6, 7; Luke 11:43) The Pharisees were so biased in their application of the Law that they made it burdensome for the people, insisting that it be observed according to their concepts and traditions. (Matthew 23:4) They completely lost sight of the important matters, namely, justice, mercy, faithfulness, and love of God. (Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:41-44) The Pharisees went to great lengths in making proselytes.—Matthew 23:15.

Jesus exposed their wrong reasoning and showed them to be violators of God’s law on account of their adherence to man-made traditions. (Matthew 15:3-11; Mark 7:6-15; Luke 11:39-44) Rather than rejoicing and glorifying God in connection with the miraculous cures performed by Christ Jesus on the Sabbath, the Pharisees were filled with rage over what they deemed a violation of the Sabbath law and therefore plotted to kill Jesus. (Matthew 12:9-14; Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:7-11; 14:1-6)

Their resolute determination not to listen to Jesus was demonstrated when he raised Lazarus from the dead. For any with a right attitude, that miracle would have been proof positive that Jesus was sent from God. However, we read: “Consequently the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Sanhedrin together and began to say: ‘What are we to do, because this man performs many signs? If we let him alone this way, they will all put faith in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.’” Their solution? “From that day on they took counsel to kill him.” Besides plotting to kill Jesus, they set out to destroy the living evidence of his being a miracle worker. “The chief priests now took counsel to kill Lazarus also.” (John 11:47, 48, 53; 12:9-11)

Answer 2

Think of the Jewish gov't back then as america today. except that the church ruled the gov't. Their people were told for centuries that the messiah would come and rule over their country and make them more powerful than enyone else in the world. But what God meant by messiah wasn't what they were expecting. They were expecting more of the rich and powerful type who will become president and change the world. But instead God gave them some random jew not even rich, who rode on a donkey proclaming to be the messiah. And the Jews at the time didnt understand how someone with no money or class would be able to rule their country. They missunderstood what god was promising to them. So they said he was false and killed him. Little do they know that he was the real messiah the one their still waiting to this day for is the anti-christ but they think he will be the real deal till Jesus comes back and sets them straight. Thats why no Jew believes in the New testement to this do, and until He does come back and the Jews repent their will probly not be to many of them makin it to heaven for a while.

Answer 3

In short, it was for political reasons.

The Pharisees were a group of religious men who stood as the religious leaders of their day. Their authority was first from Torah in Deuteronomy 17:9 which reads...
"So you shall come to the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them, and they will declare to you the verdict in the case."

Over time their pride and ego were inflated and the teachings of the Mishnah gave rise to reforms (takanot) and tradtions that were not of Torah but of the wisdom of men.

Yeshua never questioned their authority as judges over Israel, and tells his disciples to listen - Matt 23:2-3 "saying 'The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses, therefore all that they tell you, do and observe..."

What Yeshua questioned were their values, their motives, their ways of being judges over Israel (Mat 23:4-33)

While Deut 17:9 does give permission to the Pharisees to be as judges over Israel, they were only to judge over civil cases. God says in Deut 16:18-20 that the judges are to be appointed in each city and that they shall be honorable in their judging. While judges can be appointed, priests cannot because they are appointed by God. So, the judges handle the civil issues and the priests (kohanim) handle the things of God. By the time of the Pharisees, the priests were nothing more than puppets and all civil and religious judging was done by the Pharisees.

So as Yeshua preached about living according to God's Torah, the Pharisees took this as a rise to revolt against Roman authority. The problem was that Yeshua taught that anyone can live by God's Torah and that they no longer needed the reforms and tradtions of the Pharisees. The Pharisees saw this as a threat to their status as religious leaders and so marked Yeshua as a rebel.

Answer 4

Level Eight has it right.

And it's spelled Pharisee. You've got a spellchecker right there above the box.

Jesus himself was a kind of Pharisee, i.e., in the tradition that developed later into normative rabbinical Judaism. The Sadducees got annihilated consequent to AD 70.

The New Testament indicates that Jesus was regarded as seditious by the Roman authorities, and the Sanhedrin was quite prepared to give Him up to keep the pagan Roman occupiers happy.

Americans are suspicious of prosecutors bringing charges of sedition. Making nasty comments against the current President and/or Congress is mere free speech, but lots of people would like to criminalize this. This is what Jesus was crucified for.

Answer 5

They were a group of devoutly religious Jewish preists. They thought they were doing God a service because they didn't believe that he was the Son of God and just another mouthy radical speaking blasphemy and stirring up trouble. That's why they put him to death. And because their authority had been threatened by his teachings, it fueled the anger enough for them to go through with it. It was the will of God. Even Jesus himself knew that.

Answer 6

They accused him of blasphemy. See John 10:30-33.

Answer 7

Because Jesus upset the status quo of the day and they were the rich establishment.

Answer 8

Was it because Jesus said that He forgave the man his sin's?
Although I like Susan S answer.

Answer 9

For political reasons.

Answer 10

as jewishgirl said.

and the part that if he said half the stuff most christians think he did, he earned the death penalty several times over.