b.
Jesus put to death for NO REASON but for OUR SINS, NOT HIS..
Pilate ordered
Jesus put to death by crucifixion, the most horrible form of execution that the callous Romans had been able to devise; the sentence was carried out on a hill named Golgotha just outside Jerusalem on a spring day in the year A.D. 30.
In His death,
Jesus put to death the religious requirement of death.
In contrast with the priest from the temple, and the scribe from the synagogue, Jesus was listened to gladly by the common people, and finally it was not the irreligious, but the religious authorities who had
Jesus put to death, for He constituted too severe a threat to the vested interests of religion.
It is on the cross that
Jesus put to death the violent portrayal of God in the Old Testament and revealed once and for all that God is not like that.
Only to appease the priests and elders and to avoid a charge that he himself was disloyal to the emperor (cf. Jn 19:12), and only after trying various expedients to evade responsibility for the decision, did he finally consent to have
Jesus put to death.
Not exact matches
Simply
put,
Jesus told the nation of fleshly Israel just three days before his
death: «Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent
to her — how often I wanted
to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings!
As I mentioned in my first response
to Bell's having come out of the closet, the purpose of
Jesus»
death on the cross was
to put away sin — not
to grant license
to sin.
Fulfillment: Matthew 26:59 - 60 Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying
to obtain false testimony against
Jesus, in order that they might
put Him
to death; and they did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward.
So the answer
to the question «who
put Jesus to death?»
Simply
put, the beliefs and understandings that directly affect our salvation are the essentials (
Jesus, His divinity, His
death and Resurrection for the forgiveness of our sins, our ability
to be in relationship with God through His Son and Spirit and how our life should be lived as taught by the Bible etc.).
But when John is
put to death, according
to Matthew,
Jesus withdraws.
Oh, but
Jesus did eventually get help from the government... THEY
put him
to death!
Lazarus comes forth from
death for
death, this time not by disease but perhaps by the disturbed Sanhedrin —
to be
put to death for responding
to life, Just as
Jesus would be
put to death for bringing forth life.
So the chief priests planned
to put him
to death, because on account of him many were going away and believing in
Jesus.
What Mark
put together was a narrative of the mighty works and
death of
Jesus — a book largely devoted
to explaining why
Jesus had died — and he had
to write it in haste in the midst of danger, not for Jews, but for Gentile converts.
All the evangelists went out of their way
to relieve Pilate of the responsibility for
Jesus»
death and
put it on the Jews.
On that day, Polycarp, the eighty - six - year - old leader of the Christian church in Smyrna, was cruelly
put to death by fire and sword because he refused
to renounce
Jesus Christ.
According
to the subsequent narratives,
Jesus remained in the vicinity of Jerusalem, observed the Passover in the city, and expected
to be betrayed and
put to death there.
Mark brilliantly highlights the central issue, but it is more likely, historically, that
Jesus was
put to death by the Romans because he was a trouble maker.
It is the powerful love of God in
Jesus Christ,
putting sin
to death and launching new creation.
Christians affirm that the dynamics of
death and the demonic powers have been defeated and
put to death in the cross and resurrection of
Jesus Christ.
while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know
to write such a article, the laws give
to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything
to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves
to make the decision whether
to go
to war, or if a person should be
put to death, as far as
jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one
to give
to another.
Also, I should say that it seemingly
puts Jesus is the company of other great philosophical and religious teachers who essentially say the same sorts of things, in their own contexts and in their own times as
to how
to find «eternal life» a phrase I think speaks of a qualitative type of life, a flourishing, if you will, both now and after
death.
King Herod died in 3 or 4 BC which
puts Jesus birth around the same time (because King Herold had all boys ages 2 and under
put to death when he found out
Jesus was born.
The Scriptures are clear that people
put Jesus to death; not God.
After all, they
put Jesus to death on a cross about 2,000 years ago and here we are still discussing the Risen Lord.
Matthew 26:60 ► The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against
Jesus so that they could
put him
to death.
Furthermore, before
Jesus is captured and crucified, he tells his disciples that he shall be handed over
to sinners, who will entreat him spitefully, and will then
put him
to death, and on the third day he would rise.
God allowed the OT saints
to «write checks» through the animal sacrificial system, but it was
Jesus»
death and resurrection that
put the money into the account and actually took away their sins.
As far as
Jesus sacrifice goes, I think N.T. Wright hits it on the head in «The Day the Revolution Began» in that in bringing about the «Law», Sin was brought out into the open, and
Jesus drew that sin upon himself in order
to put it
to death in his flesh, and deal with it once and for all.
Regarding God's supposed violence toward
Jesus, I don't think it was God who
put Jesus to death.
Judas, on the other hand, when he saw that
Jesus had been
put to death, he immediately knew that what he had done was wrong!
As for the reason
Jesus was
put to death, Cox locates the proximate cause not in humanity's sinfulness; nor in Jewish outrage over
Jesus» claims
to be the Son of God and the Way, the Truth, and the Life; nor in the jealousy of religious leaders threatened by
Jesus» miracles (which Cox suggests were the fruit of positive thinking on the part of those who «feel» healed after touching
Jesus); nor in his teachings (which Cox insists were uncontroversial among the Jews).
Romans 5:8 So advocating that people be
put to death then would be doing God's work, and the only work God left for us after
Jesus is
to bring people
to Him not
to judge them.
It's difficult
to believe in
Jesus the healer of the leper and cripples also believe in the God who rained fire on Sodom, and demanded adulterers
to be stoned and disobedient children
to be
put to death.
I'm talking about the reasons
Jesus was
put to death.
This man,
Jesus of Nazareth, whom you
put to death, God raised from the dead and we are witnesses of the fact.
Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means
to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of
Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of
Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from
Jesus» being «
put out of the way» by his
death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»
Their way of thinking was in terms of the older Jewish belief in «resurrection of the body» — and hence the only manner in which they could proclaim that
Jesus had not been
put out of the way through
death was
to say that he had indeed been «raised from the dead», that he was in and with God, and that those who belonged
to him were granted a share in the risen life which was properly his own.
By
putting Jesus to death, the Jewish leaders thought that they were the masters and
Jesus was the victim.
Peter told them that by
putting Jesus to death they were guilty of blood.
Jesus himself was
put to death as a criminal.
Nor did it occur
to Marcus
to write his book for Jewish readers anyway; what he
put together was a narrative of the mighty works and
death of
Jesus — a book largely devoted
to explaining why
Jesus had died — and he wrote it, not for Jews, but for Gentile converts and «listeners
to the word.»
Pilate did NOT want
to put Jesus to death because he knew it was evil.
He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest,
Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up
to Jerusalem, where the rulers
put him
to death by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared
to his disciples, who were now «witnesses»
to the truth of these reported events, namely
to his resurrection from the dead.
Heavensent - How could it be evil
to put Jesus to death?
The hinge on which that faith turned was the belief that
Jesus, having been
put to death by crucifixion, «rose from the dead.»
In Chapters 14 and 15 - the so - called Passion story — we find a continuous narrative, telling in detail how
Jesus was seized by his enemies, tried and
put to death.
In this «not yet» interval between
Jesus»
death and their own, the love commandment must be
put to work.