who killed Jesus you may have heard the
anti-semitic statement that the Jews
killed Jesus which has done very serious
damage to the message of the gospel
among Jewish people but is it correct
wasn't it Roman soldiers who executed
him or perhaps Pilate who should be held
responsible or all of these ideas
missing the point this line has been
used as an excuse for brutal violence
and murder against Jews again and again
and as a result Jewish people have seen
Christianity and even Jesus himself as
distinctly dangerous this persecution
was widespread especially during the
Middle Ages but the line that the Jews
killed Jesus didn't stop then some
people still accuse the Jewish people of
the crime of killing God to this day so
where does it come from and who really
did kill Jesus there are a couple of
reasons for this line of thinking first
in John's Gospel even though John
himself is Jewish he would write the
Jews when he was referring to the
religious leaders of the time to someone
without the understanding that John
Jesus himself and all his family and
friends were Jewish it certainly sounds
like the Jews were the bad guys in his
book but clearly that's not what the
Jewish disciple meant he was talking
about a specific group of religious
people in authority second there is a
statement made by the crowd when asking
for the crucifixion of Jesus they say
his blood be on us and on our children
for many years this has been seen as a
curse on the Jewish people as a whole
for crucifying Jesus but is that how God
sees it as we have said John Mary Jesus
all the disciples and the entire first
church were Jewish so it is nonsense
that all Jewish people killed Jesus even
though majority did reject him and the
crowd demanded his crucifixion even
though they asked for a curse on
themselves and their children clearly
not every Jewish person on earth was in
that crowd and God says that curses
continued for four generations not
forever if we want to get technical the
people carrying out the execution and
nailing issuer to the cross were Italian
soldiers but the real truth of the
matter
is that it was arsons that were
responsible ultimately it was not nails
that fixed him on the cross but his love
for you and I that kept him there and
his determination to pay for sin in full
the blame actually falls on each one of
us without exception because we have
each committed sins which took him to
the cross it was the sovereign plan of
God right from the beginning of time to
send his son to die for our sins he
promises in genesis 3 that the seed of
the woman would crush Satan's head a
promise fulfilled by the victorious
death and resurrection of the Son of Man
the whole Old Testament prophecies and
points towards this incredible act of
sacrifice that would defeat the enemy
and the power of sin Isaiah 53
prophesies quite clearly that the
Messiah would suffer and pay the price
for sin by God's own design and plan
here's what it says in verses 10 and 11
it was the Lord's will to crush him and
cause him to suffer and though the Lord
makes his life an offering for sin he
will see his offspring and prolong his
days and the will of the Lord will
prosper in his hand after he has
suffered he will see the light of life
and be satisfied by his knowledge my
righteous servant will justify many and
he will bear their iniquities jesus knew
that this was his mission and was
totally willing to lay down his life for
us knowing that no one could kill him
without his permission he talks about
his life sacrifice in John 10:18
no one takes it from me but I lay it
down of my own accord I have authority
to lay it down and I have authority to
take it up again again when he's
arrested by the authorities in the
Garden of Gethsemane he says do you
think that I cannot appeal to my father
and he will at once send me more than
twelve legions of angels but how then
should the Scriptures be fulfilled that
it must be so this was a man who knew
that he had all authority and power to
resist arrest and overcome those who
would kill him but he knew that God had
a different plan so Jesus went to the
cross of his own accord and was not
unwillingly killed by anybody he did not
want to be crucified but he willingly
said to God not my will but yours he
stepped into his destiny on purpose and
in doing so he stepped on Satan's head
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history and the greatest act of willing
of sacrifice the world has ever known
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