When Jesus heard that John was in prison, he did not go to bail him out, but as soon as he heard that John the Baptist was beheaded, he left the environment totally.
Question: Why didn’t He (Jesus) go and bail him out? Why did He (Jesus) escape from that environment immediately he heard that John was beheaded?
2007-05-21 22:54:54 · 11 answers · asked by onoscity 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus did not want to tamper with divine plan of God for John the Baptist according to the book of Malachi 4: 5: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:, and Mk 9: 12 - 13:
12And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
13But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
2007-05-24 03:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Sunday 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would have been very unlikely that Jesus would have actually known John the Baptist. They each had different spiritual movments. We know from Josephus that John was much more well known than Jesus. Later Gospel accounts probably wrote in much more of a connection to give some credibility to the Christian movement at that time. John would have had his own diciples near to help him out.
Furthermore Jesus probably believed that both he and John were to be sacrificed for differnet yet similar reasons. I'm sure he grieved when John died, but there was not a lot he could do by that point. You can't bail someone out in that society and time.
2007-05-22 06:05:38 · answer #2 · answered by Cendrie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the time period in which Jesus and John lived they did not release people on bail. Unlike today, where there were no rights for prisoners, no laws, etc., they lived under a king who could do anything he wanted - including behead you on a whim without a trial.
As for why Jesus left, there are several times in scripture in which Jesus either left an area or hid himself because he (and/or his disciples) were in danger of being arrested or killed. They leaved in a society that was more violent then what we see today, and that affected many of the things that first Jesus did, and later in the book of Acts what his disciples did.
2007-05-22 06:09:17 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The story of John the Baptist being beheaded is an educated fraud.
It relies upon scripture that tells us Herod Antipas, a man who had killed members of his own family, a man who had killed emissaries, jews and anyone else who got in his way, was obliged to have John executed in order to "keep his word".
I leave it up to those who have enough human experience and common sense to judge whether a person of such lack of morals, a man who had never before kept his word on anything to anyone, would suddenly decide for this singular event to keep a promise...
Why then? Why would the christian scriptures seek to hide the Baptist via the story of his beheading?
The answer lies in two areas: (1) who was really behind the siege of Jerusalem and (2) who was the John, the former teacher of Josephus that was rescued from Jerusalem and had such an impact on forming the Oral traditions of Rabbinical Judaism?
Josephus refers to his skill in winning the freedom of an obscure but great spiritual leader called John ben Zechariah (John son of Zachariah aka John the Baptist), listed as Johanan ben Zakkai by Josephus and all subsequent Rabbinical scholars, somehow to mask his true identity, plus some former scribes of the school of Hillel.
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/josephus_wars/josephus_wars_0050.htm
So I wouldn't place too much faith on the Baptist story. Other forces are at work here.
2007-05-22 08:12:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
For salvation to be given unto all people the Jewish people had to reject God as their King a second time.
John came in the spirit of Elijah to herald the coming of the Messiah. The people had to reject Elijah before they could reject Christ. Herod killed John and the Romans killed Jesus that the scriptures would be fulfilled.
PS: Jesus and John were cousins.
2007-05-22 06:11:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
King Herod was a maniac and jealously guarded his seat of power which at the time was very precarious.
Jesus had an important mission to achieve and by going to Herod that mission would have been in jeopardy.
John was doomed by his own truthfullness and so too would Jesus have been, the time was not yet appointed for Jesus to sacrifice Himself.
2007-05-22 06:02:45 · answer #6 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christian is just a religion the bible and its teachings are full of flaws and which the church simply disregard such as
in the first book Genesis the sun was not created till the 6th day yet plants,animals and every other living thing can survive hmmmmm
and one point i strongly stick to this but century's ago the world (mainly Europe) thought the world was flat; and the bible says that god but a DOME around the world and called it the sky .........Now last time i checked the world was a SPHERE therefore the sky must be a sphere not a dome EAT THAT RELIGION
2007-05-22 06:05:21 · answer #7 · answered by I A M G O D 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
John the baptist was not born again of the Spirit and was not a true believer in Jesus.
2007-05-22 06:05:04 · answer #8 · answered by single eye 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The King wasn't accepting bail.
2007-05-22 06:03:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think we can ever question Jesus' motive or his actions. Maybe the answer will not be given here but in the afterlife.
2007-05-22 06:02:32 · answer #10 · answered by meredith 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋