Who killed Jesus?

Who killed Jesus?

Thursday, September 07, 2017

8:56 AM

I find it interesting how irate the Jewish Community gets when you say that the Jews killed Jesus.  The thing is there are several Scriptures that say that it was the Jewish Community who was responsible. 

Acts 3:12-23(NKJV)

So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? 

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. 

But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. 

And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

“Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 

But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 

and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. 

For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. 

And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’  

Here is another Scripture from the Gospel of John that predicts it will happen.

John 7:1(NKJV)

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him. 

What is interesting is when you look this subject up you see articles where Jewish believers go to great lengths to obscure and evade their responsibility.  They start out by attacking the New Testament itself as being anti-sematic.  Then they go on to point out that it wasn't the Jews who killed Jesus it was the Romans because Jesus was crucified and that is a Roman method of execution. 

Now technically that is true but it is true only because the Jews requested that Jesus be killed.  Pilate was going to let Jesus go and kill one of the other prisoners.  The Jews rejected that and repeatedly called for Jesus to be crucified.  Therefore the responsibility, no matter how much they would like to obscure the truth, lies with them.

Now as the verse in Acts points out, "

“Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 

But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 

and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began."

Nobody wants to condemn the Jews for all time or anything.  Scripture acknowledges that they did it out of ignorance and that all they have to do is repent and all will be forgiven.  But instead of repent they choose to keep defending their actions. 

Interesting that they remain one of the groups opposed to Jesus when Jesus was foretold in there Holy writings as the Savior sent by their God to save them….and they rejected Him.  How sad!

For me it comes down to who am I going to believe?  Those telling me it wasn't the Jews fault or Scripture that I can read with my own eyes which clearly tells me with was?