please no rude answers. do not say negative things about jews if you do not like them either. i am sincerely interested in understanding what the story is behind this.
2007-09-07 10:11:39 · 36 answers · asked by brookbabe90 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i actually do not know any of the details of jesus...
he was removed from what?
please give me the entire story.
2007-09-07 10:17:01 · update #1
I've always thought this was one of the more ridiculous parts of the story. Jews wouldn't have killed Jesus.
We would have sued him. (Rim shot)
2007-09-07 10:26:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Many argue that because the early Christian movement wanted to be accepted by the population of the Roman empire, they did not want to emphasize the fact that it was the Roman officials who put Jesus to death. So there was some inclination to implicate the Jews.
But Judea was a hotbed of insurrection. No area gave the Romans more trouble. And if there was talk of a coming "kingdom" and Jesus was implicated as its leader (and especially if he did commit some act of protest at the Temple during the politically sensitive celebration of Passover week), the Romans would not have hesitated to execute someone like him with dispatch.
Also, for the Christian followers there was a certain need to explain, if Jesus was the messiah as they maintained, why he wasn't more broadly accepted by the Jewish populace. So it was made out that he was "rejected" by the Jews.
What were originally arguments between two different streams within Judaism (the original Jesus movement was of course comprised of Jews), became over the centuries a deadly contribution to anti-Semitism when Christianity became so much more powerful politically.
EDIT: Clearly a lot of the individuals posting here actually presume the Jews were responsible for Jesus' death. Fact is, the Jews had no authority to execute anyone in those days. And if indeed "INRI" was posted at Jesus' execution -- meaning "Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews" -- that's all the more illustration that the Romans executed him as a political liability.
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2007-09-07 10:18:52 · answer #2 · answered by bodhidave 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Biblically, Jesus was a teacher in the Roman Province of Judea. He was of Jewish ancestry and according to the Bible of the old royal line.
Because his teachings were (and still are) controversial, the ruling council of the Jews, the Sanhedrin -- who were also responsible under Roman rule for keeping the peace, determined that his followers posed a risk to the peace of the community and therefore he was arrested, tried and convicted of what essentially was a trumped-up charge. Even by biblical standards of evidence, his conviction was shaky. After the trial, as the Sanhedrin had no legal authority to execute "criminals", they turned him over to the Roman civil authorities on charges of inciting to riot and treason.
It was a political murder instigated by SOME Jewish authorities (the Sanhedrin was FAR from unified in it's condemnation of Jesus with some of its members supporting his religiously-based teachings)
2007-09-07 10:27:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
For several reasons, but chief among them was early Christian propaganda, to bring into the flock more non-Jewish uncircumcised males, which it did. The tale that Jews 'killed Christ' was born years after the Romans executed him. (In fact, yet another roving Jewish preacher would have attracted scant atttention at The Temple.) As time passed, the young Christian church found the story useful, expanded it, and welcomed European hatred of anyone who was 'different.' Across the centuries the slaughter of Jews in Europe and the persecution of Jews wherever Europeans and their blood settled lay at the feet of the Christian religion. Had the story not been fruitful, where, then, would Christianity be--it is the belief's main underpinings: Jesus rose from the dead, ascending into heaven, and now, to the Fundies at least, is a god.
2007-09-07 10:23:13 · answer #4 · answered by Yank 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
You know... now that I think about it... it is much more difficult to contemplate how much persecution the Jews have endured, since I have come to realize that the gospels... and Jesus... are complete fiction. Consider the hundreds of thousands... perhaps millions of Jews who have been slaughtered as 'Christ killers'... and Christ never even existed.
Damn.
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2007-09-07 10:34:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
According to the story, Jesus was handed to the Romans by the Jews for blasphemy. The Romans imposed the death sentence requested by the Jews. At the time of year that this happened it was possible for one man to be saved from the death penalty imposed by the Romans, but the Jews didn't choose Jesus to be saved.
Ergo, the Jews were blamed for the death of Jesus.
But even if it did happen, 2000 years is a long time to hold a grudge!
Plus, 'God', the father of Jesus, sent him to earth to be killed anyway, so the Jews were only doing what 'God' wanted.
An atheist
2007-09-07 10:20:36 · answer #6 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
That is a lie spread by anti-Semites. It's been around since the Middle Ages.
Conveniently, it is now being used by secularists who want Christians to hate Jews and Jews to hate Christians.
Jesus had two trials. One of them was conducted by the religious authorities of the day. They wanted to execute Jesus because they believed that what He said was blasphemous, and they didn't like Him pointing out their faults and they were afraid of a popular uprising against them. But the Jews were forbidden by the Romans from executing anyone.
The second was by the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, who knew that if they didn't execute Jesus, the Jewish leadership would write a letter to Caesar claiming that he allowed rebellion to erupt in Judea. That is what they meant when they said they would tell Caesar he wasn't a friend of Rome.
Technically, the Romans executed Jesus at the instigation of the Jews. That's why Pilate washed his hands, to show he wasn't responsible.
2007-09-07 10:23:57 · answer #7 · answered by Gal from Yellow Flat 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
actually christians should know that we all killed Jesus because we are sinners, with that said here is why others believe the Jews did it.
The Romans had 2 prisoners Barabas and Jesus the Romans gave the Jews a choice spare Jesus or spare Barabas the Jews chose Barabas and left Jesus to die.
this is not my opinion
2007-09-07 10:20:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
The non-Jewish rulers could find no wrong with Jesus, but to appease the Jews, they (the Jews) were allowed to make the decision as to whether Jesus or someone else should be released.
Read the Gospel of John in the New Testament...then why not read the next book; Acts, then the next, Romans.
Do you know where you'll spend eternity?
Read Romans.
In Christ,
Dennis
2007-09-07 10:18:58 · answer #9 · answered by Dennis R 5 · 6⤊ 4⤋
I don't believe it was the Jews that killed Jesus, it was the Romans. Jesus was bad for politics, if he had continued teaching the way he was people would have started a revolution. That is why Jesus was killed, it was political.
2007-09-07 10:21:48 · answer #10 · answered by Jessy 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋