Who Killed Jesus in the Garden? Thomas Allen Did the Romans kill Jesus, or did the Jews kill Jesus? Christian Zionists and Jews claim that the Romans killed Jesus. In “Who killed Jesus: The Romans or the Jews?,” The Jerusalem Post (December 29, 2021; Updated: November 19, 2022) at https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-690095, Lewis Regenstein presents an agreement in favor of the Romans being guilty of Jesus’s death, and the Jews being innocent. With his argument, most Christian Zionists would agree. In Judea, the Roman’s controlled capital punishment, the Jews had no authority to crucify anyone. Only the Romans could execute someone by crucifixion. If the Jews had executed Jesus, they would have stoned him, as they did Stephen. Therefore, …show more content…
The New Testament shows that the Romans, and not the Jews, killed Jesus. Jesus and his family, disciples, followers, and supporters were Jews, and like other Jews they were victims of Roman oppression. Since Jesus was an observant Jew and popular with the Jewish people, why would the Jews kill him? Jesus’s popularity with the Jewish people was the primary reason that the Romans executed him. To carry out their scheme to kill Jesus, the Romans used Jewish agents and collaborators. Nevertheless, because of what Jesus said to and about the Jewish leaders, they wanted the Romans to kill Jesus since they had no power to execute him themselves. Further, they feared that the Romans would deal harshly with the Jews unless Jesus, whom they and the Romans saw as a troublemaker, was eliminated. Consequently, these leaders, who held office at the pleasure of the Romans, collaborated with the Romans to kill Jesus. In short, the Gospels describe Jesus as a popular Jewish reformer with a large Jewish following. They clearly describe the Romans as cruelly executing Jesus because the Romans perceived Jesus as a threat to Roman and their Jewish collaborators in the priesthood. As for the mob of Jews that cursed Jesus and demanded his execution, if such a …show more content…
What does the Bible say? According to the Gospels, Pilate did order Jesus’s execution, and Roman soldiers carried out that order. However, Paul and Peter place the blame and responsibility of Jesus’s crucifixion on the Jews. In 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15, Paul writes: (14) For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews (15) who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men. In this passage, Paul clearly blames the Jews for killing Jesus: “the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus.” Speaking to a group of Jews, Peter said, “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you [Jews] crucified.” (Acts 2:36). Clearly, Peter identifies the Jews as killing Jesus. Later, Peter spoke to the religious rulers and elders of the Jews and said, “[M]ay it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you [Jews] crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.” (Acts 4:10) Again,
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Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Savior, the Son of God, the Lord. Whatever you call him, he was undoubtedly one of the most important and controversial men in the recent history of the world. And at the basis of his importance was his crucifixion and resurrection. But what if this had never happened? What if he wasn’t crucified? If Jesus of Nazareth had died of natural causes instead of crucifixion; then world religious, political, and social structure would be entirely different. But why?
In the Bible’s New Testaments the book of Matthew is of Gospels genre. In the Old Testament God appointed the people who we know as prophets. They were the ones to describe Jesus life and work. What they wrote, those things did happen during Jesus life on earth. The book of Matthew explains to everyone who doesn’t believe it that Jesus is Christ. It means that Christ is God’s King. People were told by the prophets that they will be saved by the Christ from punishment for their evil deeds. This is the book about Jesus life. It teaches what Matthew wrote in this book about what Jesus taught. It even included the speech by Jesus called “The Sermon on the Mount” in chapters 5-7. It even went on to say that many ill people were cured by Jesus, blind people were able to see again, deaf people were able to hear again and Jesus even freed people who were possessed by evil spirits. There were some people who happen to hate Jesus. Jesus was killed by those who hated him on a cross. According to the prophets they had already written that Jesus would die (Isaiah 53; Matthew 12:40). Jesus was the one to suffer all the punishment from other people’s evil deeds after his death (Matthew 20:28, Matthew 26:28).
The act of crucifixion has been adopted in various cultures, over a course of many decades. The most common piece of history most people think of is that of the Galilean Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, the ubiquitous act of crucifixion has made its course through a large piece of history. Crucifixion is recorded in history as early as a Persian practice. Furthermore, the notes of Herodutus describe about “3000 inhabitants of Babylon crucified” as early as (512-485 B.C). Other historians and sources have documented other cultures utilizing crucifixion. These include: Assyrians, Scythians, Taurians, Thracians, Celts, Germans, Britons, Nimidians, Carthagians, and prior to the Roman occupation, Jews.
The roman historian Tacitus(56 A.D.-176 A.D.) was a well known skeptic who consistently criticized Christianity. He researched the historicity of Jesus Christ and came to the conclusion that he was a real man. "Christus, the founder of the [Christian] name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea... through Judea, where the mischief originated.”This quote, from the works of Tacitus, appears in every known copy, downplaying the idea of tampering by Christians. From this quote we can discern that Jesus was a jewish man who wandered Judea preaching. He eventually gained a massive following. This gained the attention of roman officials. another man who confirms these notions in his writings is Lucian of Samosata(120 - ~180 A.D.). He wrote “The Christians... worship a man to this day- ... who introduced their ...
John 18:39- but it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release `the king of the Jews'?"King of Jews- He's not the king of the Jews, He's slapping them in the face.The same thing Jesus was being accused of Barnabbas did.JN 19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. [2] The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe [3] and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they struck him in the face.Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.This is your Messiah people, this is not VBS, or bible study, this is the Messiah that is in love with you.MT 27:27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.
... and put this on his head. They mocked him by bowing down to him chanting, Hail, King of the Jews (New J Bib, 1181). He was then led off to be crucified. Above his head they placed the charge against him, which read, This is Jesus, the King of the Jews (New J Bib, 1181). At that point in time, rebels were crucified and this was a standard method. Ultimately, the Romans considered Jesus as a rebel following from his actions and crucified him as a method of punishment (Prof. Trum).
Then and now religions shared common dimensions that provide society with a doctrine, narrative, ethics, ritual, experience and a social institution. These six dimensions that Ninian Smart derived spell out the framework for comparative study of religions1. The six dimensions hold true when comparing the daily routine Roman religious thought to modern Christianity. Interwoven into the core of both cultures is a strong unifying spirit that built a strong communal bond for its people.
Nearly two thousand years ago, according to the biblical record, Jesus walked the land of Palestine ministering to the people with signs and wonders before meeting his end by crucifixion. Some historians and scholars say that Jesus was a dangerous insurrectionist that got himself executed by the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. Others revere Jesus as one of the many prophets that were sent by God to the Jewish nation. Many more believe that he was the son-of-god who came to earth on a mission to pay the penalty for the sins of the human race and bring
In Matthew 8:21-22, Jesus orders a disciple to “let the dead bury their own dead” in response to a request from the disciple to go and bury his father. The full passage reads: “Another of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’ 22But Jesus said to him, ‘Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead’” (Mt. 8:21-22). Although most theologians agree that Jesus is asking for a more loyal discipleship in this passage, there are other contended details and implications within this passage: Is Jesus too harsh in his response? Why does Jesus deny the disciple the opportunity to fulfill a commitment to Old Testament law? Why should discipleship be prioritized here? With all these questions, many theologians contest with one another over different conflicts. Taking all of these arguments into account, I assert that Jesus utilizes very radical language here merely in order to demonstrate the equally
One of the most common arguments about The Passion is that it is focused on the intentional blaming of the Jews for the death of Jesus Christ. Throughout the movie, and in particular the scenes where he is held before Pontius Pilate and Caiaphus, Jesus is berated and blamed for blasphemy by his own people, a notion that is not explicitly talked about within the Bible. It is obvious in the movie and the Bible though, that Jesus has no bad intentions or threats to anybody, yet he becomes the enemy. The implied reason for this is that the Jews rejected Jesus and God. But why are the ideas of love and freedom that Jesus is promoting, in the movie and the Bible, so evil and unacceptable according to the people and high priests? At most of t...
In the narrative in which Pilate is named, Pilate's father, who can't read, lets the Bible fall open and points to a set of lines that look agreeable to him. It just so happens that the word spelled out by those lines is "Pilate," the name of the Roman who turns Jesus over to be crucified. The midwife attending at Pilate's birth asks the father if he really wants to name the child after the person who killed Jesus, and the father replies, "I asked Jesus to save me my wife," and he continues, "I asked him all night long" (19). Yet his wife wasn't saved, and Pilate's father feels...
From the third to the fourth century, the Roman Empire witnessed a widespread attempt to stop the spread of Christianity. Initially, leaders of the church were predominately targeted, but later anyone admitting to Christianity became a target. The persecutions hit a climax during Diocletian’s reign. These persecutions actually helped the spread of Christianity by glorifying Christians and beginning a tradition of martyrdom that shaped the Church, and the strength that Christians displayed shows that the persecutions could not have possible stopped the spread of Christianity.
Paul’s confession is, it is necessary to examine the four parts of the confession which are: Jesus’ death, the empty tomb, the third day, and the witnesses. The first part of St. Paul’s confession focuses on Jesus’ death which is best explained by the two expressions that are found within it: “for our sins” and “in accordance with the Scriptures.” St. Paul’s reference to the “Scriptures” is important because Jesus used them on the road to Emmaus to teach the disciples about himself after his Resurrection. The Scriptures became the means by which the disciples were able to grasp the various things that had happened to Jesus because they were a fulfillment of the Scriptures. Through their new understanding of the Scriptures, the disciples were able to comprehend that Jesus’ death on the cross was not a coincidence but rather that it was part of God’s plan and ongoing relationship with Israel (and through them with the rest of humanity). The reference to Jesus’ dying “for our sins” is understood by many Scripture scholars as a scriptural allusion to the fourth Suffering Servant Song in the fifty-third chapter of the Book of Isaiah which is interpreted as a sign too of God’s gratuitous love for humanity. The reason for Jesus’ death is very different from that of each human being’s because their death is the result of original sin. Jesus’ death, on the other hand, is not due to any sin that he committed—because he is sinless, instead
The Apostle Paul tells his young disciple and servant of the Lord, Timothy, that Christians should rightly handle the Word of truth in 2 Timothy 2:15, stressing the importance of accurate interpretations of the Scriptures and appropriate applications in the lives of believers. Paul shared this with Timothy because many false teachers, gods, and beliefs were present during that time. Much like the days of Paul and Timothy, believers today must be aware of what the Scripture teaches and be on guard against those spreading false doctrine. Christians can achieve the goal of rightly handling the word of truth be learning and applying biblical hermeneutics when studying the Scriptures.