DID “THE JEWS” KILL JESUS?
By Hugh
For
hundreds of years Jews, especially during Christmas and Easter, have been told,
“You, the Jews killed Jesus.” The very notion that “the Jews” killed their god
has caused so much suffering for Jewish people for over 2,000 years.
Who
actually made and is making these claims today? Christians of course! These very same people who
preach, “turning the other cheek” and following the message of Jesus to
“forgive them.” (Luke 23:34) Those are the very same Christians who
preach Christianity is a religion of LOVE.
No
Roman, Greek, Persian, or Egyptian historian ever wrote the lie that the Jews
killed Jesus. Only bigots who preach hate have said that. Actually, Christians who have no
understanding of their bible, from an intelligent point of view, believe
this horrible lie. They have been taught that the Jews killed Jesus from early
childhood and they just automatically repeat the lie without thinking.
First
of all, did THE Jews, as a whole kill Jesus? That's really a very misleading
issue. Would you say that “the Americans” killed Abraham Lincoln? Or, that “the
Americans” killed John F. Kennedy? Even if you can prove that there was a plot
to kill Kennedy you still can't say that THE AMERICANS killed Kennedy. So even
if it this lie is true that Jews killed Jesus, it is not correct to say that
“THE Jews (implying all of them) killed Jesus.” Do you see the distinction?
What the Christian bible, their New Testament is implying is that every single
Jew killed Jesus. That the entire Jewish race will forever be damned for
killing Jesus, as told in the author of Matthew, who was to later become a saint.
Again, who did kill killed Jesus? It's not a difficult question. The Christian bible claims that Jews
railroaded Jesus and sent him to the Roman Pilate to have him killed. Examine
that issue in itself. Did “the Jews” railroad Jesus? Do we believe at face
value, what the Christian bible claims the Council of Rabbis said to Jesus? Who
witnessed that event and heard every word spoken? It was certainly not Matthew,
nor Mark, nor Luke, nor John, nor Paul! Yes, pray tell, who was the eye witness
that recorded these words?
The
Christian bible claims that Rabbis “brought false witnesses, but they couldn't
find testimony against Jesus.” That sentence itself makes no sense, but that is
what it says. Ask any Christian if they can explain that claim. They give one
example of the false testimony, and it turns out to be something that Jesus
might have done! However, according Jewish law, it was not a punishable
offense. What the Christian bible deliberately omits during this inquisition
were the sins that Jesus did in public, such as desecrating the Sabbath after
being reminded that it was forbidden. That IS an offense that the Torah
says is punishable by stoning, yet this is never mentioned at the trial as told
in the Christian bible. Why not? Because this event was written by Christians
and they wanted to make Jesus look innocent. This brings up still another
point. According to John, after a trail, the Jews were not allowed to punish
another Jew by way of stoning or any other means that would lead to their
death, since
So by
the Christian version, it would be impossible for the Rabbis to have killed
Jesus. For one reason, there was no reason to do so. So, what did the Christian
bible have to do? They made up a claim that Jesus talked blasphemy, which is
punishable by death.
But
wait; what words did Jesus say that was blasphemy? Being called the son of God
was accepted by Jewish law because all Jews were children of God and Jews often
called themselves sons of God. Unfortunately the unknowing Christian reading
his bible does not know this.
Let us
say for purposes of discussion that the so-called trial of Jesus, as only told
in the Christian bible, really happened.
What
Rabbinical council was this?
Was it
the Pharisee Sanhedrin that represented the Jewish populace, or was it the
Sadducees who only represented themselves and
Was
the trail legal, or was it a kangaroo court?
The
Christian bible (NT) says that the leader of this Rabbinical council was the High
Priest, Caiaphus, a Sadducee. To the Christian its goes unnoticed, but to
those who do know Halakhah (Jewish Law) the writers of the New
Testament unwittingly clearly demonstrate that they did not know Jewish Law.
These Christian NT authors did not realize that their writing meant that the
Sadducees would have had to brake every Jewish Law of
Rabbinical Courts to arrest Jesus.
For
example: they arrested a man on the Holiday, they held the council on the
Holiday (possibly a Sabbath too, according to the gospel of John), they were
led by a Sadducee high priest, they hit the defendant, they did not follow
council procedure as spelled out in Pharisaic Law, and many other numerous
proofs.
Still,
the question has not been answered, who did killed
Jesus? It was
In
the first Gospel story of Jesus' trial and crucifixion, the author of Mark
engages in a carefully crafted and delicate balancing act over the question of
responsibility for Jesus' death: between Jew and Roman, between the Jewish
religious establishment and the secular arm of the Empire. Mark knew full well
that only the Roman governor could condemn a man to the cross, but he also
wanted to allot to the Jewish leaders and to the Jewish people as a whole an
equal if not greater role in Jesus' execution.
Mark,
throughout his story, sets the scene by having the chief priests, scribes and elders
plot to do away with Jesus, and it is their forces that first arrest him in the
When
Jesus was finally turned over to the Roman governor, Mark makes Pilate behave
in a manner which is entirely uncharacteristic of what we know of the “real
Pilate” from historical sources, and of Roman policy in general. By
whitewashing Pilate, by having the demands of the Jewish leaders and Jewish
people override Pilate’s attempts to free Jesus, Mark had the crowd choose
Barabbas, the leader of an rebellion (an option no governor of Judea would ever
have offered. To further show how ridiculous Mark’s story is, nowhere is there
is any historical record of such a Roman policy―freeing
a prisoner at a crowd’s request. But Mark had a mission―to place the
primary responsibility for Jesus' death at the feet of the Jews.
When
Pilate finally washes his hands of the affair, official Roman brutality takes
over, and Jesus is further abused, scourged and finally crucified. However, the
Christian bible cannot let that lie end because the gospel writers immediately
had the Jews reenter the picture in the jeers of the spectators at the foot of
the cross. Further the Christian bible portrayed the Jews unbelief was obstinate―contrasting it with the Roman centurion who
declared in an act of faith that “truly this man was the Son of God.” Finally,
Mark brings God himself into the picture to hide the sun's face behind a
blackened sky, and to repudiate his treacherous people by rending the very veil
of his own holy sanctuary. Mark thus set the course for the Jews' wretched fate
at the hands of Christians and the Christian church for the next two millennia,
and Matthew would seal its fierceness with the most heinous line of fiction
ever penned: “His
blood be upon us and upon our children!” Yes, these are the very words Hitler chose to speak to the world at the passion plays of
Such
is the picture of Jesus' death presented in the Gospels: the unjust execution
of an innocent man, beset by betrayal and false accusations and a pitiless
Jewish establishment. Its lurid details have been indelibly branded into the
mind of every Christian preacher and writer and every convert to the new faith.
Instead, there is scarcely a murmur of it until Mark—drawing on a multitude of
scriptural passages and an old literary formula found throughout centuries of
Jewish writing, known as the Suffering and Vindication of the Innocent
Righteous One—sits down to pen his tale, a good half century or more after it
all supposedly took place.
And, by
the way, for the record, it is forbidden for a Jew to hand over another Jew to
be killed by Gentiles. Therefore, it certainly was not an authentically
religious Jew who would have done such a thing. Thus, Jews, who follow the
Pharisees, cannot be said to be associated with that incident told by the
Christians themselves.
This brings us to the next Christian claim that “Jesus was trying to bring back
the Torah to the Jews and everyone.” Is this really true? Do Christians have
the Torah today? They follow only the Christian bible, the teachings of Paul
and give no more than lip service to the Torah, and seldom even that much. Most
Christians can not define Torah; much less know what it contains. Jesus, being
a Pharisee would have followed the Torah, but Paul’s Jesus refused it. In what
way has the Torah been brought to the Christian world? No, the evidence speaks otherwise. Jesus, in
his life as recorded by the Christian bible, and in the deeds of his followers
for the past 2,000 years, has not brought the Torah to anyone. Instead
Christians have killed hundreds of thousands and spent millions of dollars to
wrest the Torah away from Jews and to keep it away from the rest of the world
as well.
Jews and others alike, have found you can't accept as truth what a Christian
says about Jews or Jewish history, and you can NEVER trust what a Christian
says about the religion of Judaism itself. Doesn't the Christian bible say that
they should love their enemies, and forgive them for whatever they do, and to
speak only words of love? The History of Christianity towards the Jews has
proved differently.
Think about this. If Jesus was supposed to die for “your sins” and it was
preordained -- then wasn't his crucifixion really a Christian holy act,
because, according to the New Testament, God preordained it. If there had been
no crucifixion, then I guess all the Christians
would NEVER be saved. Instead they would have gone to the Christian
hell.
So,
instead of hating the Jews, Christians should really be thanking them for
allowing Christians to be saved. How many pastors do you think would tell this
truth during their Easter sermons?
Stop
all the anti-Semitism!!!! This hate begins and must stop at the pulpit!