Why do people say that Jews killed Jesus ?

Answer 1

The Romans killed Jesus but it was the Jews who set it up.So there is blood on there hands too.

Answer 2

Because the early Christians were hardly going to write accounts stating it was the Romans, were they?!

Only the Romans ever practised crucifixion. The Jews never did.

As for people who insist that the Jews somehow petitioned the Romans to get rid of Jesus - what rubbish! The Jews were not in any position to get the Romans to do anything!

Remember that the accounts claiming the Jews were culpable in the death of Jesus were written AFTER the fact. This is very relevant.

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Answer 3

The Romans killed Jesus.

Answer 4

Ignorance of the facts. It was a sect of Jews. The book of revelation mentions that there are people who claim to be of our brother Judah, but really aren't. It is those people that got to be scribes for the real levite priests. And when these levite priests died or were removed the roman government appointed those scribes to take over the empty spot .. That is how the priesthood got polluted. Two books explain how this happened , Ezra and Nehemiah i think. And it was these non pedigreed Jews that pressured the Romans into killing Jesus by inciting everybody by shouting "crucify Him,,, crucify Him.

Answer 5

As a Jew:

Jews didn't kill him.

The only account of this event is given in the Christian Bible--which was written at a time when Christianity was a struggling religion, competing with Judaism for adherants.

Now: if you were a judge, would you accept as valid evidence the word of someone who was a competitor of the accused? Would you listen to someone who had no physical evidence--but who had everthing to gain by accusing someone else?

Because in this case, that's all you've got.

And as a result of this slander, millions of Jews have been killed over the years.

Answer 6

Because they want to blame someone. There had to be an scapecoat. The ones who killed Jesus was us. It was our sin that put Him on the cross. The sins of the past, present and future. God let the whole senerio play out because He came to die for us. He loved us to much not to die for us. It was God's plan for Jesus to die. The Jews did'nt kill Him or the Romans.

Answer 7

It's a funny thing really. As it is told in the Bible, the Jews wanted Him dead and Pilate turned Him over to them, but He was actually killed by the Romans while the Jews watched. For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church referred to Jews as "Christ Killers" when the Romans were the ones hammering the nails ;)

Protestants have generally not blamed either side but accept that Christ's death had to happen for Salvation to enter.

Answer 8

The leaders (Sanhedrin) of the Jewish church pushed the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate into a pllitical corner. They caused such a ruckus, and Pilate was fearful of loosing control of the crowd, and didn't want to loose his command from Ceaser, the Roman "god-like" king of all the Roman world. He literally washed his hands of the situation.

Pilate could have stopped it, but the leaders persisted, and stirred the people into "allowing" Jesus to go to the cross.

The Jews have to take their part of the blame. But they don't want the Christian world to claim them guilty.

Answer 9

Jesus had been annoying the Jewish Priests and Elders for some time. They had been infiltrating the crowds who gathered to benefit from His miracles and listen to His teachings for some time...think, for instance, of the woman taken in adultery. That was obviously a set-up job. If Jesus had answered them "stone her, according to the law", He not only would have been contradicting His own teachings, but He would have run afoul of the Roman government, who alone had the authority to execute anyone. If, on the other hand, He had answered "no, do not stone her", He would have been violating the law of Moses. Either way, they would have had something to accuse Him of. There were several such set-ups, but Jesus side-stepped them all.
Then came the day He rode into Jerusalem as the rightful King of the Jews...riding on a donkey. Remember that the Israelites under Samuel had asked for a human king, and that God told Samuel that they had rejected Him from being King over them. And, then...horror of horrors...He DARED to "desecrate" the very Temple grounds! There was nothing they could do about it, since the multitudes were hailing Him as their Messiah! They still needed something to accuse Him of, in order to get Pilate, who was noticeably reluctant, to sign the order condemning Him to death...and they needed to take Him at a time when His followers were not surrounding Him.
Think about the blood lust of the crowd that morning...think of all those people, screaming "Crucify Him"...and then, that damning cry..."His blood be upon us...and upon our children!"
Can you see it, in your mind's eye? Horrible, isn't it?
Now, come out to Golgotha, and listen, as the Romans actually drive the nails through Him, and raise His cross.
What is that, He is saying?
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do..."
There was no word of forgiveness earlier, was there? No, there were remarks about the destruction of Jerusalem..."one stone not upon another"...and "your house will be left to you desolate"...but no "Father forgive them." Because they knew, or should have known, exactly what they were doing. Remember that Malachi had written "The Lord, Whom ye seek shall suddenly appear in His Temple"...they should have known.
No, that pained and poignant plea was for the soldiers that day. And the centurion finally knew that "surely, this was the Son of God."

This is Biblical history, as told by those who were there.
You can believe it, or not...but this is the reason why people say that the Jews killed Jesus. It is still wrong to blame people living today...but this is the background. Perhaps it has something to do with that bit about His blood being on their children...
If it were me, I think I'd be quite vexed with my ancestors for saying that! Especially considering all that the Jews have been through since because of it!

Answer 10

Jesus was Jewish. He annoyed the religious authorities and made them jealous with his message and miracles; they could be pretty ruthless. He yielded himself to their schemes acording to the New Testament so God could work a perfect sacrifice through him for forgiveness and salvation purposes (if He was God, He could, as He said He could, have at any moment prevented the chain of events, but He saw himself as the suffering servant of Isaiah 53.)

The Romans were the dominant power so of course the Sanhedrin politicos had to go to them and pressure them to crucify Jesus, since they didn't have the power to execute.

Captured in Judaea with a Jewish religious government and Roman political rule ... not surprising that Jewish religious leaders and Roman politicians were the ones to do the deed (which paradoxically accomplished God's salvation plan).

Answer 11

Transference of blame for the execution of Jesus was made to take the Romans off the hook so the early church could gain acceptance by the Romans.