Did the Jews kill Jesus?

Question

Just to put rest to an argument....my friend was sayin that the jews killed Jesus, while me and my other friends were sayin that it was the Romans...anyone know?

Answer 1

Jesus chose to kill himself.

He knew that Judas was going to betray him to the Jews, and knew that he could have avoided death by telling Pilot/the Romans that he wasn't the King of the Jews.

He had ample chances to avoid death, but chose instead to receive it. That is like saying that someone who hangs themselves were killed by the rope factory.

Answer 2

Jews had nothing to do with the death of Jesus- it was purely a Roman thing. The so called trial given in the NT story is the completely opposite of the Jewish law
1) It takes place at night- all trials were held during the day
2) It takes place in a private home- all trials inJjeruslaem were held in the court of the Sanhedrin in the Temple courtyard
3) There were very few people present - there have to be a minimum of 21 judges in a capital case- in Jerusalem the full Sanhedrin of 70 judges heard capital cases.
4) If a court cannot find a person guilty, they are forbidden to hand them over to secular authorities - the "court" in the NT does not find Jesus guilty and then hands him over.

So four serious violations of the halacha (Jewish law)- which since they were in a capital case means the death sentence for those committing the violations- yet the NT keeps slandering the Pharisees and their strict adherence to the law!

On top of that- you have a big problem; a Roman governor who is later removed for excessive cruelty! (You gotta wonder- and this from a people that watched people fighting to death, getting eaten alive etc for fun!) And yet a conquered, powerless group of people is somehow meant to have the ability to get him to obey them?

What does make sense is if this whole ridiculous scenario is inserted in to remove the blame from the Romans when the early Christians were trying to convert them and needed a scapegoat! Who better than the people that had rejected their new God - it removes the blame from the people they are trying to convert while giving an excuse why the vast majority of them have rejected him!

Answer 3

According to the religion of the time, Jesus was a Heretic. He declared himself to be the son of God against the Old Testament. He was in their opinion trying to bring people away from the true faith. According to the NT, they asked the Roman officials to do something about him, because it was the Romans who had power at that time. The Romans agreed, and they arrested and crucified him, again, all according to the New Testament.

Two interesting facts:
1. NO other history of the times written by ANYONE makes ANY mention of anyone named Jesus nor does it make ANY reference to any of the events described in the New Testament.

2. IF all of this did in fact happen, and IF according to the New Testament it was all PRE-ORDAINED to happen by GOD, then the Jews and the Romans are responsible for fulfilling prophecy and providing Jesus with the means of dying for humanity's sins. WITHOUT them, there would have been NO crucifixion, NO martyrdom, NO resurrection, NO sacrifice for the sins of humanity and no Christianity in the first place.

Mention this to your friend.

Answer 4

How did Jesus kill the Jews ? Technically the Romans killed Jesus however the Jews condemned him. they might have enable him circulate yet did no longer. and that they tried him. yet remember this replace into in ordinary terms lots of the Jews. And in the top it did no longer count number via fact Jesus had administration over dying.

Answer 5

Several key stories can be related to the Christian mythology tale of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Only some of them attribute the actual killing of Jesus Christ by the direct hands of the Jewish community of Israel at that time.
While crucifixion was in fact a method in which the Romans executed felons in the time of Jesus, there is no way of authenticating any Jewish involvement in the crucifixion.
The New Testament tells of the conviction of Jesus by the Sanhedrin, the Jewish court of the time, in the crime of claiming himself as a false prophet. After his conviction, the New Testament states Jesus was transferred to the hands of the Roman high console, Pontius Pilate who sentenced him to death by crucifixion under the charge of mutiny against the Roman Empire.
As mentioned above, it is not clear how much of the story is based in facts, nor how much was there actual active involvement of the Jews in the death of Jesus Christ.
This tale of the Jews responsible for the death of Jesus was one of the founding stones of the classical anti-Semitism, and in the name of vengeance many Jews were killed throughout history.
In conclusion, some tales connect the Jews to the death of Jesus Christ, but there can be found no substantial evidence to such occurrences, the accusation against the Jews did in fact bring many recorded incidents of violent acts against Jews.

Answer 6

It was the Romans that killed Jesus. How do I know? It's simple: Jesus was crucified. The Romans and Phoenicians executed people with crucifications. The Jews executed by stoning.

Answer 7

No Jews didn't kill Jesus...

it was the will of the Jewish rulers and leaders that wanted Jesus crucified, not the Jewish people as a whole.

It was the religious rulers who insisted on Jesus being crucified, through the power and hand of the Romans.

Answer 8

The Jews brought the charges against Jesus, and when Pilate offered to release Jesus the Jews yelled "crucify him, crucify him" Therefore it was the Jews who killed Jesus.
They wanted Jesus dead because His teachings were contrary to the teachings of Moses, Jesus said He was the truth and that Moses was a liar, and that He (Jesus) knew this because He was sent by God the Father, He (Jesus) was the Son of God the Father. If Jesus was the Son of God, all the teachings of the pharasees and their wealth and temple would be gone, they would all be replaced by Jesus, this meant that the Romans would no longer listen to them, as religious leaders, they would lose their place and nation.

Answer 9

You are correct. It was the Romans, not the Jews. Period. The Sanhedrin (the Jewish court at the time) did not have the authority to pass the death sentence anyway. Your friends are wrong.

Answer 10

It was the Romans, at the orders of the territorial governor Pontious Pilot. The means and manner of his death were the typical Roman fashion of execution for prisoners, and a particularly painful and gruesome means at that. it even says in the various accounts of his death in the New Testament that it was the Romans.