WHAT BIGGEST BINEFITS the ROMANS gained?

Question

on PILATES washing of his hands?that even up to now still the
binefits going on.and that was the results of pilates personal
interrogations with IESUS in the DANGEOUN be4 he (IESUS)
WAS cursed to death by his own people. the JEWS.has it(8) any connection with HITLER's ORDER of executing so many JEWS during the 2nd world war?

Answer 1

Strength in numbers.



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Answer 2

During this time frame, numerous messiahs had been cropping up in Judea. The Jews were now under Roman dominion, and bitterly resented their rule, which lead to the rise of numerous prophets and messiahs claiming to come and save the Jewish people. To the pragmatic Romans, they were just kooky religious nuts, but Romans were tolerant of all religions as long as they didn't upset civil order. And that is precisely what Jesus was doing.

He may not have been the only Messiah, but he was certainly the most influential. This greatly angered the orthodox Jews, who wished to persecute him for being a heretic. Pontius Pilate had to make a choice between giving the Jews their corpse, or risk open revolt by the Jews. So the arguement was made that Jesus was disturbing the peace, thus condemned to death.

Although that bought the peace, it wouldn't last. about 50 years later the Jews revolted, and the Jewish Wars commenced. It was folly of the Jews to believe that they could stand against Rome at the height of its power, and they were crushed handily. The result was a by the books case for what Romans did to disobedience; they sold the Jews into slavery, and took any that weren't and deported them to somewhere else in the empire, with laws expressly forbidding the Jews from returning to Judea. Then, Judea itself was renamed Palestine, to further displace the Jews. This is why the Jews, even to this day, live in scattered enclaves and are not still in Judea.

There are no direct links between the Roman's Jewish War and Hitler's final solution. Any connection is circumstantial. The Romans were always tolerant of other religions and races, and was one of the few ancient societies willing to grant citizenship to those of a different ethnicity than their own. Paul of Tarsus, from the bible, is a famous example of a non-Italian Roman citizen.

Answer 3

The Romans believed that Jesus' crime was one of religion, not against the state. He was, of course, a heretic. Pilate had the difficult task of balancing the demands of the Pharisees against the requirements of Roman law. He surrendered to expediency in the hope of maintaining public order.

I have always liked The Life Of Brian - the Monty Python film - as a primer on first century Palestinian politics.

Answer 4

The only benefit Rome perceived or sought was the crushing of any potential leader of rebellion. They were very largely successful. I would imagine that if he had declared that he did not intend to oppose or supplant Rome he would have been released. As Jesus was executed by Romans (the ancestors of Hitler's Italian ally) rather than Jews (the ancestors of his victims), I don't think there is any definite link between the Crucifixion and the Holocaust.

Answer 5

Actually iansand, you're mistaken. Jesus' crime WAS political, not religious. There were no religious crimes in ancient Rome because they were tolerant of most religions (polytheistic cultures usually are). Jesus 'claimed' he was the Messiah (debatable) which would make him a political leader (contrary to Christian belief, the Jewish Messiah was not spiritual, but political) and thus an enemy of the Roman state.

And Hitler's genocide during WWII has nothing to do with Jewish action in the Bible. Hitler loathed Christians too (specifically Catholics).

Answer 6

Seems to me that this was the first political move to separate Church and State. Well done.

Answer 7

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