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Who Killed Jesus Christ?
It is a well-documented fact that the Jewish authorities in
Jesus’ day tried unsuccessfully to take hold of him and kill
him before his time (John 8:40; John 7:1, 19, 25; John 11:47-
57). But for some strange reasons, Sanhedrin 43a., says
"Jesus ("Yeshua" and in Soncino footnote #6, Yeshua "the
Nazarene") claims that Jesus was executed by a proper
rabbinical court for idolatry, inciting other Jews to idolatry,
and contempt of rabbinical authority." Again, all classical
Jewish sources which mention his execution are quite happy
to take responsibility for it; in the Talmudic account the
Romans are not even mentioned. In the scriptures we found
that other than the usual smear and their hatred for Jesus
Christ, for speaking against the traditions of the elders
(Matt. 15:1-9), we found no biblical account to show that the
Jewish religious leadership killed Jesus, but whether they
knew it or not, they were actually handing Him over as the
only sacrifice for our sins (Ex. 11:13;Heb. 10:1-13). Of course,
there were a lot of failed attempts by the Jewish elders to
take him before his time, but his hour was not yet come. The
reason they could not take him was not that they lacked the
desire to do so, or that they talked without intending to act.
Rather, God hindered them from doing what they wanted
because He had a timetable of his own, and nothing could
interfere with the divine plan. Once again God beat them in
their game, especially, in the timing of the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ. For the heavens and the earth is
the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
The Christian needs to understand that, we would not have
Jesus as our savior if he had not died as He and the prophets
had predicted (Dan. 9:25, 26). If I might add, it would be
ridiculous to think that ordinary human beings could
successfully plan and kill the Son of God without Him
knowing about it. If Jesus was the Son of God as we
Christians believe, why then would anyone who calls himself
or herself a Christian ever want to consent to such ridiculous
idea that Jews or their leaders could have successfully
planned and killed the Son of God without God knowing
about it? Of course, the Jewish elders in Jesus’ day planned
unsuccessfully to get rid of him. Their plans did not succeed
because God had his own plan to save both the house of
Israel and the Gentiles through his Son. The Roman
appointed High Priest had motive, but Jesus would have to
die the way God planned it. The Jew and the Gentile joined
together in crime against God, (Acts 4:24-28). Both proven to
be guilty, but found not guilty because God destroyed the
evidence against us by raising Jesus from the dead (Acts 2:
23,24).
Justice Cohn's Report
Justice Haim Cohn a retired Justice of the supreme court of
Israel in his article on the trial and the crucifixion of Jesus
Christ, noted that "one of the reasons the Jewish leadership
at the time attempted to kill Jesus was because the standing
and prestige of the High Priests, the Sadducee and the
Pharisees among broad masses of the people in those days
was steadily declining. They were suspected and accused of
collaboration with the Roman authorities and with the
puppet king Herod serving the Romans. The opportunity to
regain its religious authority presented itself in the case of
Jesus. Jesus was not an ordinary man, but one who
challenged the authority of the religious leadership of his
country at that time," he wrote.
.
Therefore, the notion that there would have been a revolt if
the Jewish authorities had not turned Jesus over to the
Romans is unfounded, and makes a very poor defense; when
you are accused of a conspiracy and the murder of the Son of
God and Messiah; the Lion of Judah. We know that the
revolts that were going on in Jerusalem against the Romans
had nothing to do with Jesus. Because according to Flavius
Josephus, in the Antiquities of the Jews page 379, chapter. 3,
para. 1 and 2, the riot that went on or was going on at the
same time the high priests and the temple officers were
planning the death of Jesus Christ, was due to the fact that
“Pilate undertook to bring a current of water to Jerusalem,
and did it with the sacred money, and derived the origin of
the stream from the distance of two hundred miles. "
However, the Jews were not pleased with what had been
done about this water; and many ten thousands of the
people got together, and made a clamor against Pilate, and
insisted that he should leave off that design. . . .”
Jesus actually did impress the Romans with his doctrine, and
the Jewish population saw him as one who spoke with
authority. Some of his teachings include: the fact that we
should love and pray for our enemies and those who
despitefully use us; all those who take the sword shall perish
by the sword (Matt. 26:52). The Romans were despitefully
using the Jews, and the Jews saw the Romans as their
enemies at the time. Jesus teaches that we should love our
neighbors as we love ourselves. Again, we must forgive our
neighbors their debts if we are to receive forgiveness from
God.
Jews did not kill Jesus Christ; God planned his death and
resurrection and carried it out (Acts 2:23, 24). The Jewish
High Priest and the Temple officers at the time tried to kill
Jesus. Both the Jewish leadership and the Gentile Romans
in Jesus’ day because they lacked the knowledge of the
scriptures (Acts 3:17-18) added to their selfish ambitions,
played their respective roles as Jesus had predicted in
fulfilling the prophecies of God's plan to establish the new
covenant by which salvation can be freely obtained (Gen. 28:
14; John 10:16; Luke 18:32-3, 34). It was the plan of God for
Jesus to die not for himself, but for his friends (Dan. 9:24
-27). You will be surprised to learn that the reason Judaism
today gives no credence to the notion of a divine Messiah is
also in the plan of God and was predicted by Jesus and the
prophets (John 5:43; Matt. 24:5; Zech. 12:10; Rev. 1:7). Again,
if anyone out there still believe God could not have come in
the flesh so He may visit the man whom he made in his
image, please could you tell me where Moses got his story
we find in Genesis Chapter 18:1-33?
In all the nations of the world, ordinary citizens in most
cases do not have control over the actions of their leaders.
The ordinary Jew had no control over what the leadership of
Israel at the time was doing. Today we talk about what
Hitler and the Third Reich did each time the Holocaust is
called to mind, but not the Germans. The plot to kill Jesus
was outside the control of the ordinary Jewish citizens just as
we have been made to believe that the genocidal plot against
the Jews and other non-Jews and Protestant Christians in
Germany during WWII was carried out outside the control
and knowledge of the ordinary German citizens during the
Holocaust.
It should be borne in mind that Jesus Christ would have had
to die for our sins to be atoned. For there is no remission of
sin without the shedding of blood (Hebrew 9:22; Lev. 17:11).
Jesus’ appearance in Israel with the Romans in authority
was the fulfillment of the prophecies by the prophets (Dan. 2:
40-45). Jesus himself constantly predicted the manner of
death he would die (Matt. 16:21).
At the time of Jesus in Israel, the Romans represented the
oppressor and Jesus [Yeshua] as the deliverer. However,
God's plan to deliver Israel and Jerusalem this time around
was not going to be by the use of military force, but by His
Spirit and by the Word of God through His anointed One.
But because the plan of God and the deliverer were rejected
as we have always noted in the history of Israel that they
have always rejected the plan of God and killed the true
prophets of God. The Romans who were definitely the
awaiting judgment on the people, if the Jewish Pharisaic
religious leadership in Israel should reject Jesus Christ and
his message which is The Word of God; were then permitted
to execute the prophesied judgment. (Daniel 2:40-45, Deut.
18:19; Dan. 9:26, 27).
Jesus was rejected by the Jewish religious authority who then
handed him over to the Romans to be crucified as Jesus had
predicted (Luke. 24: 6, 7). In 70 A.D. forty years after the
death and resurrection of Jesus in that same generation as
Jesus had predicted, the judgment came when Titus and his
men sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the temple system to
this day (Matt. 24:34).
Again, one wonders why the Jewish authorities did not have
Jesus stoned to death for blasphemy? Pilate ordered the
Chief Priest and the temple officers to try Jesus and punish
him under their law, but the Jewish leadership refused to do
so; saying that it was not lawful for them to put any man to
death (John 18:31, 32). Of course, it was lawful to put any
man to death according to the Jewish traditions at that time.
Stephen was stoned to death after being accused of
blasphemy (Acts 7:57-60). Therefore, it was the plan of God
for Jesus to be crucified by the gentiles, for the same reason
the gentiles love him today (Rom. 15:12). In the death of
Jesus we find the Jewish religious leadership and the Gentile
authority joined together in a conspiracy against God (John
18:32, 33). The plan to kill Jesus was a conspiracy against
God by the Jewish elders in partnership with the Gentile
leaders (John 5:18; Acts 4:24-28). Both parties carried out
their respective roles as prescribed in the plan of God and as
were predicted by Jesus and the prophets.
Jesus’ Predictions of His Death
Matt. 16:21. From that time forth Jesus began to show his
disciples, how that he must go up to Jerusalem, and suffer
many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and
be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Matt. 17:22-23, Matt. 26:24; Mk. 9:31-32; 10:33, 34
Luke. 9:22-27, 43-45.
Luke 18:31-33. Then Jesus took his disciples and said to
them: behold, we go up to Jerusalem and all things that are
written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be
accomplished.
v.32. For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be
mocked,and spitefully entreated, and spitted on.
v.33., and they shall scourge him, and put him to death; and
the third day he shall rise again.
Luke 24:6, 7. He is not here, but is risen: remember how he
spoke to you when he was yet in Galilee.
v.7. Saying, the Son of man must be delivered into the hands
of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
v.8. And they remembered his words.
Jesus Before Pontius Pilate The Governor
John: 18:28-30. The Chief Priests and the temple officers
brought (delivered) Jesus to the Hall of Judgment, but the
chief priests and the temple officers did not go in, lest they
defile themselves. By Jewish tradition (not God's law) at that
time, entering the house of a Gentile was a serious offence.
Pilate inquired to know who Jesus was and what was his
crime. The chief priests and the Temple officers replied that
Jesus was a malefactor: a person who violates the law John
18: 31, 32. Pilate replied, well take him and judge him
according to your law, on the grounds that he had no
evidence before him that Jesus had done anything against
the Roman law. The Chief Priest, replied, “it is unlawful for
us to put any man to death.” But we know that under the
Jewish custom in Jesus’ time, it was lawful to put any man
to death for blasphemy by stoning (Deut. 13:10; John 19:7;
Acts 7:57-60). This false statement by the Chief Priest and the
temple officers, point to the prophets and to Jesus’ prediction
and ..
It is a well-documented fact that the Jewish authorities in
Jesus’ day tried unsuccessfully to take hold of him and kill
him before his time (John 8:40; John 7:1, 19, 25; John 11:47-
57). But for some strange reasons, Sanhedrin 43a., says
"Jesus ("Yeshua" and in Soncino footnote #6, Yeshua "the
Nazarene") claims that Jesus was executed by a proper
rabbinical court for idolatry, inciting other Jews to idolatry,
and contempt of rabbinical authority." Again, all classical
Jewish sources which mention his execution are quite happy
to take responsibility for it; in the Talmudic account the
Romans are not even mentioned. In the scriptures we found
that other than the usual smear and their hatred for Jesus
Christ, for speaking against the traditions of the elders
(Matt. 15:1-9), we found no biblical account to show that the
Jewish religious leadership killed Jesus, but whether they
knew it or not, they were actually handing Him over as the
only sacrifice for our sins (Ex. 11:13;Heb. 10:1-13). Of course,
there were a lot of failed attempts by the Jewish elders to
take him before his time, but his hour was not yet come. The
reason they could not take him was not that they lacked the
desire to do so, or that they talked without intending to act.
Rather, God hindered them from doing what they wanted
because He had a timetable of his own, and nothing could
interfere with the divine plan. Once again God beat them in
their game, especially, in the timing of the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ. For the heavens and the earth is
the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
The Christian needs to understand that, we would not have
Jesus as our savior if he had not died as He and the prophets
had predicted (Dan. 9:25, 26). If I might add, it would be
ridiculous to think that ordinary human beings could
successfully plan and kill the Son of God without Him
knowing about it. If Jesus was the Son of God as we
Christians believe, why then would anyone who calls himself
or herself a Christian ever want to consent to such ridiculous
idea that Jews or their leaders could have successfully
planned and killed the Son of God without God knowing
about it? Of course, the Jewish elders in Jesus’ day planned
unsuccessfully to get rid of him. Their plans did not succeed
because God had his own plan to save both the house of
Israel and the Gentiles through his Son. The Roman
appointed High Priest had motive, but Jesus would have to
die the way God planned it. The Jew and the Gentile joined
together in crime against God, (Acts 4:24-28). Both proven to
be guilty, but found not guilty because God destroyed the
evidence against us by raising Jesus from the dead (Acts 2:
23,24).
Justice Cohn's Report
Justice Haim Cohn a retired Justice of the supreme court of
Israel in his article on the trial and the crucifixion of Jesus
Christ, noted that "one of the reasons the Jewish leadership
at the time attempted to kill Jesus was because the standing
and prestige of the High Priests, the Sadducee and the
Pharisees among broad masses of the people in those days
was steadily declining. They were suspected and accused of
collaboration with the Roman authorities and with the
puppet king Herod serving the Romans. The opportunity to
regain its religious authority presented itself in the case of
Jesus. Jesus was not an ordinary man, but one who
challenged the authority of the religious leadership of his
country at that time," he wrote.
.
Therefore, the notion that there would have been a revolt if
the Jewish authorities had not turned Jesus over to the
Romans is unfounded, and makes a very poor defense; when
you are accused of a conspiracy and the murder of the Son of
God and Messiah; the Lion of Judah. We know that the
revolts that were going on in Jerusalem against the Romans
had nothing to do with Jesus. Because according to Flavius
Josephus, in the Antiquities of the Jews page 379, chapter. 3,
para. 1 and 2, the riot that went on or was going on at the
same time the high priests and the temple officers were
planning the death of Jesus Christ, was due to the fact that
“Pilate undertook to bring a current of water to Jerusalem,
and did it with the sacred money, and derived the origin of
the stream from the distance of two hundred miles. "
However, the Jews were not pleased with what had been
done about this water; and many ten thousands of the
people got together, and made a clamor against Pilate, and
insisted that he should leave off that design. . . .”
Jesus actually did impress the Romans with his doctrine, and
the Jewish population saw him as one who spoke with
authority. Some of his teachings include: the fact that we
should love and pray for our enemies and those who
despitefully use us; all those who take the sword shall perish
by the sword (Matt. 26:52). The Romans were despitefully
using the Jews, and the Jews saw the Romans as their
enemies at the time. Jesus teaches that we should love our
neighbors as we love ourselves. Again, we must forgive our
neighbors their debts if we are to receive forgiveness from
God.
Jews did not kill Jesus Christ; God planned his death and
resurrection and carried it out (Acts 2:23, 24). The Jewish
High Priest and the Temple officers at the time tried to kill
Jesus. Both the Jewish leadership and the Gentile Romans
in Jesus’ day because they lacked the knowledge of the
scriptures (Acts 3:17-18) added to their selfish ambitions,
played their respective roles as Jesus had predicted in
fulfilling the prophecies of God's plan to establish the new
covenant by which salvation can be freely obtained (Gen. 28:
14; John 10:16; Luke 18:32-3, 34). It was the plan of God for
Jesus to die not for himself, but for his friends (Dan. 9:24
-27). You will be surprised to learn that the reason Judaism
today gives no credence to the notion of a divine Messiah is
also in the plan of God and was predicted by Jesus and the
prophets (John 5:43; Matt. 24:5; Zech. 12:10; Rev. 1:7). Again,
if anyone out there still believe God could not have come in
the flesh so He may visit the man whom he made in his
image, please could you tell me where Moses got his story
we find in Genesis Chapter 18:1-33?
In all the nations of the world, ordinary citizens in most
cases do not have control over the actions of their leaders.
The ordinary Jew had no control over what the leadership of
Israel at the time was doing. Today we talk about what
Hitler and the Third Reich did each time the Holocaust is
called to mind, but not the Germans. The plot to kill Jesus
was outside the control of the ordinary Jewish citizens just as
we have been made to believe that the genocidal plot against
the Jews and other non-Jews and Protestant Christians in
Germany during WWII was carried out outside the control
and knowledge of the ordinary German citizens during the
Holocaust.
It should be borne in mind that Jesus Christ would have had
to die for our sins to be atoned. For there is no remission of
sin without the shedding of blood (Hebrew 9:22; Lev. 17:11).
Jesus’ appearance in Israel with the Romans in authority
was the fulfillment of the prophecies by the prophets (Dan. 2:
40-45). Jesus himself constantly predicted the manner of
death he would die (Matt. 16:21).
At the time of Jesus in Israel, the Romans represented the
oppressor and Jesus [Yeshua] as the deliverer. However,
God's plan to deliver Israel and Jerusalem this time around
was not going to be by the use of military force, but by His
Spirit and by the Word of God through His anointed One.
But because the plan of God and the deliverer were rejected
as we have always noted in the history of Israel that they
have always rejected the plan of God and killed the true
prophets of God. The Romans who were definitely the
awaiting judgment on the people, if the Jewish Pharisaic
religious leadership in Israel should reject Jesus Christ and
his message which is The Word of God; were then permitted
to execute the prophesied judgment. (Daniel 2:40-45, Deut.
18:19; Dan. 9:26, 27).
Jesus was rejected by the Jewish religious authority who then
handed him over to the Romans to be crucified as Jesus had
predicted (Luke. 24: 6, 7). In 70 A.D. forty years after the
death and resurrection of Jesus in that same generation as
Jesus had predicted, the judgment came when Titus and his
men sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the temple system to
this day (Matt. 24:34).
Again, one wonders why the Jewish authorities did not have
Jesus stoned to death for blasphemy? Pilate ordered the
Chief Priest and the temple officers to try Jesus and punish
him under their law, but the Jewish leadership refused to do
so; saying that it was not lawful for them to put any man to
death (John 18:31, 32). Of course, it was lawful to put any
man to death according to the Jewish traditions at that time.
Stephen was stoned to death after being accused of
blasphemy (Acts 7:57-60). Therefore, it was the plan of God
for Jesus to be crucified by the gentiles, for the same reason
the gentiles love him today (Rom. 15:12). In the death of
Jesus we find the Jewish religious leadership and the Gentile
authority joined together in a conspiracy against God (John
18:32, 33). The plan to kill Jesus was a conspiracy against
God by the Jewish elders in partnership with the Gentile
leaders (John 5:18; Acts 4:24-28). Both parties carried out
their respective roles as prescribed in the plan of God and as
were predicted by Jesus and the prophets.
Jesus’ Predictions of His Death
Matt. 16:21. From that time forth Jesus began to show his
disciples, how that he must go up to Jerusalem, and suffer
many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and
be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Matt. 17:22-23, Matt. 26:24; Mk. 9:31-32; 10:33, 34
Luke. 9:22-27, 43-45.
Luke 18:31-33. Then Jesus took his disciples and said to
them: behold, we go up to Jerusalem and all things that are
written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be
accomplished.
v.32. For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be
mocked,and spitefully entreated, and spitted on.
v.33., and they shall scourge him, and put him to death; and
the third day he shall rise again.
Luke 24:6, 7. He is not here, but is risen: remember how he
spoke to you when he was yet in Galilee.
v.7. Saying, the Son of man must be delivered into the hands
of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
v.8. And they remembered his words.
Jesus Before Pontius Pilate The Governor
John: 18:28-30. The Chief Priests and the temple officers
brought (delivered) Jesus to the Hall of Judgment, but the
chief priests and the temple officers did not go in, lest they
defile themselves. By Jewish tradition (not God's law) at that
time, entering the house of a Gentile was a serious offence.
Pilate inquired to know who Jesus was and what was his
crime. The chief priests and the Temple officers replied that
Jesus was a malefactor: a person who violates the law John
18: 31, 32. Pilate replied, well take him and judge him
according to your law, on the grounds that he had no
evidence before him that Jesus had done anything against
the Roman law. The Chief Priest, replied, “it is unlawful for
us to put any man to death.” But we know that under the
Jewish custom in Jesus’ time, it was lawful to put any man
to death for blasphemy by stoning (Deut. 13:10; John 19:7;
Acts 7:57-60). This false statement by the Chief Priest and the
temple officers, point to the prophets and to Jesus’ prediction
and ..
the prophets of the manner of death he would die, concerning
the method of his execution (Matt. 20:17-19; Dan 9:25, 26).
John: 3:14; 8:28, 29. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.
John. 10: 14-18. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep,
and am known of mine.
v. 15. As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father; and
I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:16. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold
(the Gentiles): those also I must bring, and they shall hear my
voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. (There
shall be one fold, and one shepherd. The word for fold should
be properly translated “flock.” Jews and Gentiles shall be
incorporated into the one body of which Jesus is shepherd).
The Jews and the Gentiles having united to sin against God,
have come short of the glory of God. Therefore, those who were
united against God in the death of Jesus, should now return to
The Father and be united in Jesus. The one body is subject to
one head, Jesus. It is guided and led by the one Spirit and is
commanded to have love for all members of the flock while
waiting for the one common destiny of all believers in God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
"Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my
life, that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but
I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again. This commandment have I received
from my Father" (John 10:17, 18).
John 12:27, 32, 33. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I
say? Father save me from this hour; but this cause came I unto
this hour.
John 15:13. Greater love has no man than this that a man lay
down his life for his friends.
Matthew 20:28. Even as the Son of man came not to be
ministered, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for
many.
Son of man, Jesus referred to himself as the Son of man more
than eighty times in the New Testament Gospels. This term
describes his office as the Messiah, but he avoided the word
“Messiah” because the people of his day attached to it
connotations that were improper (The people thought of the
Messiah as an irresistible military conqueror who would smite
Rome and restore the political empire of King David). In its
messianic connotation the term “Son of man” was first used in
Dan 7:13, where it was applied to a heavenly figure whose
everlasting rulership over all is given to him by the Ancient of
days. Jesus gave this title its full messianic and redemptive
significance.
Conclusion
It has come to be universally believed that the Jewish
leadership in Jesus’ time unsuccessfully plotted to kill him
before his time, and that their Gentile partners (Romans)
crucified him. But according to Jesus, he laid down his life for
the benefit of his friends. “No man takes it from me, but I lay
it down of myself.’ ‘I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again.’ ‘This commandment have I received
from my Father (John 10: 18; Dan. 9:26).”
In A.D. 33, April 3, Flavius Josephus wrote in the Antiquities
of the Jews: “Now, there was about this time, Jesus, a wise
man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of
wonderful works, --a teacher of such men as receive the truth
with pleasure.’ ‘He drew over to him both many of the Jews,
and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when
Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had
condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first
did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the
third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten
thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe
of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.’”
Talmudic Law
To keep the truth from the people, an ancient Rabbinic curse
in the Talmud, forbids people to read a portion of the Bible:
"May the bones of the hands and the bones of the fingers
decay and decomposed, of him who turns the pages of the
book of Daniel to find the time of Daniel 9:24-27, and may his
memory rot from off the face of the earth forever" (Talmud
Law, p.m, Section 2, Line 28).
The question we ask of these Pharisees (Rabbis) is, what are
you trying to hide from the people? Why wouldn't you let the
people read the Scriptures and decide for themselves if Yeshua
(Jesus) is the Messiah?
Today we read from some of these Phrisees (Rabbis) of our day
as they are bent on not believing what God has done in the
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They argue that the
High Priest and the temple officers were actually trying to help
Jesus from being crucified by the Romans. However, there is
no passage in the Scriptures supporting these assertions or that
the Romans were looking for Jesus to arrest him. It turned out
that it was the High Priest and his officers who arrested Jesus
and after questioning him and found him guilty of blasphemy
[Matt. 26:65; Mk. 14:64; John 19:7, 11], which they had to do in
the middle of the night so the people would not know (John 18:
19-25, 28). Let's give the high priest and the Jewish elders the
benefit of the doubt that really the Romans were looking for
Jesus to kill him, while the Jewish elders were trying to help
him. The best thing would have been for them to put him in a
safe-house or send him away for a time where the Romans
would not find him. Instead, we read from the book of Luke
that the next day, early in the morning, they delivered him to
the judgment seat of Pontius Pilate the gentile governor in
fulfillment of Prophecy, thereby handing him over (Luke 24:
6,7). To help free him, the high priest and the Jewish elders
delivered Jesus to Pilate whom today’s Rabbis claim had evil
clutches on him. The High Priest was asked by Pilate why he
was presenting Jesus? He replied that Jesus was a malefactor
[John 18:29-32]. Again, it was the High Priest and the temple
officers who first raised the issue of putting him to death, by
purporting to remind Pilate that they had no power to put any
man to death, in contradiction to the Jewish claim of
Deuteronomy 13:10, as the reason they have always used to
justify themselves for not believing in Jesus Christ and as cited
by the crowd in John 10:33.
Here is the details of the plot (Matt. 26), tell me if this is how
you help a person? Already many consultations had been held
against the life of Jesus but this plot was laid deeper than any
yet, for the grandees were all engaged in it. This is the court
Sanhedrin 43a described. The chief priests, who presided in
ecclesiastical affairs; the elders, who were judges in civil
matters, and the scribes, who, as doctors of the law, were
directors to both—these composed the Sanhedrin, or great
council that governed the nation, and these were confederate
against Jesus. Observe (1.) The place where they met; in the
palace of the high priest, who was the centre of their unity in
this wicked project. (2.) The plot itself; to take Jesus by
subtlety, and kill him; nothing less than his blood, his life-
blood, would serve their turn. So cruel and bloody have been
the designs of Jesus’ and his church’s enemies. (3.) The policy
of the plotters; Not on the feast-day. Why not if it is to help
him? Was it in regard to the holiness of the time, or because
they would not be disturbed in the religious services of the
day? No, but lest there should be an uproar among the people.
They knew Jesus had a great interest in the common people, of
whom there was a great concourse on the feast-day, and they
would be in danger of taking up arms against their rulers, if
they should offer to lay violent hands on Jesus, whom all held
for a prophet. They were awed, not by the fear of God, but by
the fear of the people; all their concern was for their own
safety, not God’s honor. They would have it done at the feast;
for it was a tradition of the Elders enforced on the Jews, that
malefactors should be put to death at one of the three feasts,
especially rebels and impostors, that all Israel might see and
fear; but not on the feast-day.
These men were of one mind in this plot, but they knew not
that the year of the redeemed was now come, the seventy
weeks determined were now accomplished, when transgression
must be finished, reconciliation made, and an everlasting
righteousness brought in, by the cutting off of Messiah the true
Israelite, the Prince, Daniel. 9:24, 26.
Jesus Christ Our High Priest
To the Christians, now of all the things we have heard of the
Old and the New, we must know that we have a high priest,
who is set, i.e. “who is seated.” The High Priest always
ministered standing. There were no seats in the tabernacle or
temple. So when the High Priest questioned Jesus if he was
the Son of God? And Jesus’ replied, “hereafter shall the Son of
man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming in the
clouds of heaven” (Matt. 26:64-67), the high priest understood
what that meant. The High Priest was so enraged at Jesus’
claim, that he rent his clothes in violation of the regulations for
the priesthood (Lev. 21:10); saying “he has spoken blasphemy;
what further need have we of witness?’ ‘Behold, now you have
heard his blasphemy (Lev 24:16).’” The high priest was in
violation of the Law of the priesthood because he rent his
clothes for the wrong reason when he was actually told the
truth by The Lord Jesus. According to the High Priest, Jesus
was guilty of death for telling him the truth, but his trial and
punishment would not be according to the Jewish Law, which
would require that Jesus be stoned to death. But the Romans
would be the ones to do it as Jesus and the prophets had
predicted (Matt. 20:17-18; Dan 9:24-26; John 10:16).
In Isaiah 53:1-12, we find that God actual planned the death of
Jesus and carried it out to the disappointment of all those who
thought they were doing God and humanity service by plotting
and putting Him to death (John 16:2, 3).
The Christian should be warned that hating and or going after
the Jews would place you against the will of God. The Jewish
leadership fulfilled their apportioned role in the Scripture as
predicted by Jesus and the prophets, and so did the gentiles by
the judgment rendered by Pilate who had Jesus crucified. The
Jew and the Gentile as partners in crime, but there is no
evidence to convict the accused, because God raised Jesus and
He is alive and well. Once again The Almighty God has
turned our evil plan against His Son for good, and used it to
save us all who have accepted His sacrifice and the
resurrection of His Son our Lord Jesus Christ. May your will be
done Oh! God Almighty.
As the plans of the New World Order unfolds, we see the same
pattern of conspiracy taking shape again, Rome and some
apostate Jews and Gentiles are getting together again as in
Jesus’ day. Once again they seem to be with one mind and
have one goal, the destruction of Believers and the Church of
The Lord Jesus. But as the destruction of Jerusalem and the
fall of Babylon, Egypt and the Roman Empires etc., were
determined respectively in their time, so is the end of all things
has already been determined by The Lord Jesus as detailed in
the book of His Revelation (Rev. 22:11-16).
If any man or woman has an ear to hear, let him or her hear.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he or she
that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.
Here is the patience and the faith of the saints (Rev. 13: 9, 10).
If anyone is unfaithful, this could neither annul what God said
nor lead God to be unfaithful to Himself or to His promises.
END
the method of his execution (Matt. 20:17-19; Dan 9:25, 26).
John: 3:14; 8:28, 29. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.
John. 10: 14-18. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep,
and am known of mine.
v. 15. As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father; and
I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:16. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold
(the Gentiles): those also I must bring, and they shall hear my
voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. (There
shall be one fold, and one shepherd. The word for fold should
be properly translated “flock.” Jews and Gentiles shall be
incorporated into the one body of which Jesus is shepherd).
The Jews and the Gentiles having united to sin against God,
have come short of the glory of God. Therefore, those who were
united against God in the death of Jesus, should now return to
The Father and be united in Jesus. The one body is subject to
one head, Jesus. It is guided and led by the one Spirit and is
commanded to have love for all members of the flock while
waiting for the one common destiny of all believers in God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
"Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my
life, that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but
I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again. This commandment have I received
from my Father" (John 10:17, 18).
John 12:27, 32, 33. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I
say? Father save me from this hour; but this cause came I unto
this hour.
John 15:13. Greater love has no man than this that a man lay
down his life for his friends.
Matthew 20:28. Even as the Son of man came not to be
ministered, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for
many.
Son of man, Jesus referred to himself as the Son of man more
than eighty times in the New Testament Gospels. This term
describes his office as the Messiah, but he avoided the word
“Messiah” because the people of his day attached to it
connotations that were improper (The people thought of the
Messiah as an irresistible military conqueror who would smite
Rome and restore the political empire of King David). In its
messianic connotation the term “Son of man” was first used in
Dan 7:13, where it was applied to a heavenly figure whose
everlasting rulership over all is given to him by the Ancient of
days. Jesus gave this title its full messianic and redemptive
significance.
Conclusion
It has come to be universally believed that the Jewish
leadership in Jesus’ time unsuccessfully plotted to kill him
before his time, and that their Gentile partners (Romans)
crucified him. But according to Jesus, he laid down his life for
the benefit of his friends. “No man takes it from me, but I lay
it down of myself.’ ‘I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again.’ ‘This commandment have I received
from my Father (John 10: 18; Dan. 9:26).”
In A.D. 33, April 3, Flavius Josephus wrote in the Antiquities
of the Jews: “Now, there was about this time, Jesus, a wise
man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of
wonderful works, --a teacher of such men as receive the truth
with pleasure.’ ‘He drew over to him both many of the Jews,
and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when
Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had
condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first
did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the
third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten
thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe
of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.’”
Talmudic Law
To keep the truth from the people, an ancient Rabbinic curse
in the Talmud, forbids people to read a portion of the Bible:
"May the bones of the hands and the bones of the fingers
decay and decomposed, of him who turns the pages of the
book of Daniel to find the time of Daniel 9:24-27, and may his
memory rot from off the face of the earth forever" (Talmud
Law, p.m, Section 2, Line 28).
The question we ask of these Pharisees (Rabbis) is, what are
you trying to hide from the people? Why wouldn't you let the
people read the Scriptures and decide for themselves if Yeshua
(Jesus) is the Messiah?
Today we read from some of these Phrisees (Rabbis) of our day
as they are bent on not believing what God has done in the
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They argue that the
High Priest and the temple officers were actually trying to help
Jesus from being crucified by the Romans. However, there is
no passage in the Scriptures supporting these assertions or that
the Romans were looking for Jesus to arrest him. It turned out
that it was the High Priest and his officers who arrested Jesus
and after questioning him and found him guilty of blasphemy
[Matt. 26:65; Mk. 14:64; John 19:7, 11], which they had to do in
the middle of the night so the people would not know (John 18:
19-25, 28). Let's give the high priest and the Jewish elders the
benefit of the doubt that really the Romans were looking for
Jesus to kill him, while the Jewish elders were trying to help
him. The best thing would have been for them to put him in a
safe-house or send him away for a time where the Romans
would not find him. Instead, we read from the book of Luke
that the next day, early in the morning, they delivered him to
the judgment seat of Pontius Pilate the gentile governor in
fulfillment of Prophecy, thereby handing him over (Luke 24:
6,7). To help free him, the high priest and the Jewish elders
delivered Jesus to Pilate whom today’s Rabbis claim had evil
clutches on him. The High Priest was asked by Pilate why he
was presenting Jesus? He replied that Jesus was a malefactor
[John 18:29-32]. Again, it was the High Priest and the temple
officers who first raised the issue of putting him to death, by
purporting to remind Pilate that they had no power to put any
man to death, in contradiction to the Jewish claim of
Deuteronomy 13:10, as the reason they have always used to
justify themselves for not believing in Jesus Christ and as cited
by the crowd in John 10:33.
Here is the details of the plot (Matt. 26), tell me if this is how
you help a person? Already many consultations had been held
against the life of Jesus but this plot was laid deeper than any
yet, for the grandees were all engaged in it. This is the court
Sanhedrin 43a described. The chief priests, who presided in
ecclesiastical affairs; the elders, who were judges in civil
matters, and the scribes, who, as doctors of the law, were
directors to both—these composed the Sanhedrin, or great
council that governed the nation, and these were confederate
against Jesus. Observe (1.) The place where they met; in the
palace of the high priest, who was the centre of their unity in
this wicked project. (2.) The plot itself; to take Jesus by
subtlety, and kill him; nothing less than his blood, his life-
blood, would serve their turn. So cruel and bloody have been
the designs of Jesus’ and his church’s enemies. (3.) The policy
of the plotters; Not on the feast-day. Why not if it is to help
him? Was it in regard to the holiness of the time, or because
they would not be disturbed in the religious services of the
day? No, but lest there should be an uproar among the people.
They knew Jesus had a great interest in the common people, of
whom there was a great concourse on the feast-day, and they
would be in danger of taking up arms against their rulers, if
they should offer to lay violent hands on Jesus, whom all held
for a prophet. They were awed, not by the fear of God, but by
the fear of the people; all their concern was for their own
safety, not God’s honor. They would have it done at the feast;
for it was a tradition of the Elders enforced on the Jews, that
malefactors should be put to death at one of the three feasts,
especially rebels and impostors, that all Israel might see and
fear; but not on the feast-day.
These men were of one mind in this plot, but they knew not
that the year of the redeemed was now come, the seventy
weeks determined were now accomplished, when transgression
must be finished, reconciliation made, and an everlasting
righteousness brought in, by the cutting off of Messiah the true
Israelite, the Prince, Daniel. 9:24, 26.
Jesus Christ Our High Priest
To the Christians, now of all the things we have heard of the
Old and the New, we must know that we have a high priest,
who is set, i.e. “who is seated.” The High Priest always
ministered standing. There were no seats in the tabernacle or
temple. So when the High Priest questioned Jesus if he was
the Son of God? And Jesus’ replied, “hereafter shall the Son of
man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming in the
clouds of heaven” (Matt. 26:64-67), the high priest understood
what that meant. The High Priest was so enraged at Jesus’
claim, that he rent his clothes in violation of the regulations for
the priesthood (Lev. 21:10); saying “he has spoken blasphemy;
what further need have we of witness?’ ‘Behold, now you have
heard his blasphemy (Lev 24:16).’” The high priest was in
violation of the Law of the priesthood because he rent his
clothes for the wrong reason when he was actually told the
truth by The Lord Jesus. According to the High Priest, Jesus
was guilty of death for telling him the truth, but his trial and
punishment would not be according to the Jewish Law, which
would require that Jesus be stoned to death. But the Romans
would be the ones to do it as Jesus and the prophets had
predicted (Matt. 20:17-18; Dan 9:24-26; John 10:16).
In Isaiah 53:1-12, we find that God actual planned the death of
Jesus and carried it out to the disappointment of all those who
thought they were doing God and humanity service by plotting
and putting Him to death (John 16:2, 3).
The Christian should be warned that hating and or going after
the Jews would place you against the will of God. The Jewish
leadership fulfilled their apportioned role in the Scripture as
predicted by Jesus and the prophets, and so did the gentiles by
the judgment rendered by Pilate who had Jesus crucified. The
Jew and the Gentile as partners in crime, but there is no
evidence to convict the accused, because God raised Jesus and
He is alive and well. Once again The Almighty God has
turned our evil plan against His Son for good, and used it to
save us all who have accepted His sacrifice and the
resurrection of His Son our Lord Jesus Christ. May your will be
done Oh! God Almighty.
As the plans of the New World Order unfolds, we see the same
pattern of conspiracy taking shape again, Rome and some
apostate Jews and Gentiles are getting together again as in
Jesus’ day. Once again they seem to be with one mind and
have one goal, the destruction of Believers and the Church of
The Lord Jesus. But as the destruction of Jerusalem and the
fall of Babylon, Egypt and the Roman Empires etc., were
determined respectively in their time, so is the end of all things
has already been determined by The Lord Jesus as detailed in
the book of His Revelation (Rev. 22:11-16).
If any man or woman has an ear to hear, let him or her hear.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he or she
that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.
Here is the patience and the faith of the saints (Rev. 13: 9, 10).
If anyone is unfaithful, this could neither annul what God said
nor lead God to be unfaithful to Himself or to His promises.
END
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