Why don't Jews believe in Jesus?

Question

and why did they attempt to kill him?

Sure. But why do they kick out priests who want to spread the word of Christianity? Ha????

Answer 1

I wanted to wait for the smoke to clear before I made my post. This subject has interested me for sometime and even though I have reached a conclusion, I still look at it as the genius of God's intellect.

Moses was in the desert in Exodus with the children of Israel. Time and time again the children of Israel would get disgusted with God and Moses. God didn't take that lightly. He responded after a time with a promise:
"I will make you envious by those who are not a nation;
I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding."[j] 20And Isaiah boldly says,
"I was found by those who did not seek me;
I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me."[k] 21But concerning Israel he says,
"All day long I have held out my hands
to a disobedient and obstinate people."[l]
(Romans 9:19-21)
i (Psalm 19:4)
j (Deut. 32:21)
k (Isaiah 65:1)
l (Isaiah 65:2)

Basically, God got fed up with them. They continually rebelled against Him. But God did two things: 1) He told them that He would make them jealous, and 2) He would take His time in making the promise stick.

So I am saying that God took hundreds of years to make His promise manifest, and then He told them in other ways that they would not believe, but that they would one day believe.
He did that here:
10 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son."
(Zechariah 12)

In Zechariah 12, it's not a new first coming of the Lord. It's a return! And they will recognize him them, and weep in regret.

So there is a happy ending to the story. Ezekiel 38 and 39 tell of a massive army of nations that set out upon Israel, Jerusalem specifically, and Zechariah 14 tells us of the return of the Lord, who will cause an earthquake never before seen. The Lord will fight and deliver them from their enemies once again, only this time, in accordance with Isaiah 61:
2 . . . and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,

You see, the Jews believe that the Day of Vengeance was supposed to come with the first entrance of the Messiah. They expected Isaiah 61:1-2 to mean all at the same time:
1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,

2 to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,

BUT! Jesus did something rather peculiar when he came:

17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
18"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, 21 and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
(Luke 4)

He stopped reading at the place where it said " to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

Well, the Jews were confused by that. They could not accept a gap in time, it wasn't traditional to separate what we call 'verse two' like that. So they consider that Jesus is not the Messiah because there was no "Day of Vengeance."

Answer 2

First of all, the Romans killed Jesus. The Jews were oppressed by the Roman empire and has no autonomy. whatsoever.
The reason we do not believe in Jesus as the messiah is that he did not fulfill the requirements the messiah has to fulfill.
These are the textual requirements for the messiah:
* The Sanhedrin will be re-established (Isaiah 1:26)
* Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance. (Isaiah 2:4)
* The whole world will worship the One God of Israel (Isaiah 2:17)
* He will be descended from King David (Isaiah 11:1) via King Solomon (1 Chron. 22:8-10)
* The Moshiach will be a man of this world, an observant Jew with "fear of God" (Isaiah 11:2)
* Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership (Isaiah 11:4)
* Knowledge of God will fill the world (Isaiah 11:9)
* He will include and attract people from all cultures and nations (Isaiah 11:10)
* All Israelites will be returned to their homeland (Isaiah 11:12)
* Death will be swallowed up forever (Isaiah 25:8)
* There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease (Isaiah 25:8)
* All of the dead will rise again (Isaiah 26:19)
* The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11)
* He will be a messenger of peace (Isaiah 52:7)
* Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did to Israel (Isaiah 52:13-53:5)
* The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23)
* The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55)
* Weapons of war will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9)
* The Temple will be rebuilt (Ezekiel 40) resuming many of the suspended mitzvot
* He will then perfect the entire world to serve God together (Zephaniah 3:9)
* Jews will know the Torah without Study (Jeremiah 31:33)
* He will give you all the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4)
* He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful (Isaiah 51:3, Amos 9:13-15, Ezekiel 36:29-30, Isaiah 11:6-9)

I notice all of your questions are anti-Jewish. Why is that????

Answer 3

Jews did believe in Jesus they became the first Christian if you look at the early days of the Church. Also many Jews of that period of history and today believe in Jesus but not that He was the Messiah. They don't deny His existence.
And the Jews did not kill Him the Romans did with only a small band of Jews supporting the killing of Christ.

Answer 4

Because he was not the Messiah. He was a man who did not fulfill any of the prophesies set out by the Torah. Only when Jesus died did the concept of a "second" coming come about and the trinity is not even once alluded to in the Torah.
Most Jews believe Jesus existed but was not God, the son of God or some spirit. He was a man who was executed and died.

Answer 5

Jesus believes in himself, and all the world. He was born a Jew. As for the jewish race, most consider him a prophet, but not the Son of God. All that will change in the next 5-7 years, as the Kingdom of God is established on the earth.

Answer 6

Jews believe that Jesus existed, but they just dont believe he was the messiah or God in human form.

He did not fulfill the requirements of being a messiah.
He did not ressurect the dead.
He did not come out of the House of David.
He did not bring about a messianic age.

And to answer phax,. but there are no jews that believe in Jesus Christ. If you become "Born Again", or accept Jesus as your savior, you are no longer Jewish. The two belief systems are mutually exclusive. It is impossible to be a "Jew for Jesus". If you are a "Jew for Jesus", what you are is a christian, not a jew.

Answer 7

Jesus wasn't the messiah the Jews were looking for - can't just SAY you're the son of God and expect EVERYONE to believe it.

More importantly, the Jews did NOT kill Jesus. Those were the Romans. Vatican said so at Number Two. To say otherwise is just hatin'.

Answer 8

It's not fundamentally His existence, it is a question of His divinity that they do not believe. The Romans killed Him, His own fellow Disciples, Jews like Jesus, turned on Him. Others, well, they could have spoke up in His defence, but were fearful for their own lives, so kept quiet, and diverted attention away from their own imperfections. He was the whipping boy and took the punishment, He did go against Roman Law at the time, and He knew what was going to happen. He spoke up, and like many that have followed Him, we have seen throughout history the treatment of those who are outspoken and do no harm to others, one great man who did so was Dr. Martin Luther King. Amen.

Answer 9

Well, the Messianic Jews do believe in Him. The Orthodox believe in him too. They just don't believe He's the promised Messiah.
Why did they ATTEMPT to kill Him. They DID kill Him. Unfortunately for them, He rose again. Anyway, they killed Him because He was a threat to their way of life, to the way they had always done things. For the priests and religious leaders, He exposed them for the phonies that they were.

Answer 10

Please stop. The Jews did not kill Jesus. The Romans did and I "believe" Jesus was I person but I do not think he was the savior. Jews believe the savior has not yet come and that is ok because I can believe anything that I want.

Answer 11

Mrs. Bear said "they didn't know, they were innocent". Oh boo hoo!

The problem isn't that they killed Jesus and didn't believe in him, the problem is that anything they do is excused.

People come on here and bash anybody, any religion, Christians and Muslims alike.

When it comes to Jews, they can do no wrong. Why you ask? because of the stigma that anything said would be "anti-Semitic".

BS if you ask me.

edit: Papillo, why would you violate anyone for their opinion? the Jews of today are not the "Shepardic" Jews of Palestine. They are European with no genetic relation. Those are the Jews with political connections that present any criticism of Israel or their religion as anti-Semitic.
There has been no objection to questioning or criticizing Christians or Muslims on here as "ant- anything!!!! It's Free speech, live with it, the rest of the population does.