Oh, well, and that paints the jews in such a fine, positive light, doesn't it?
Anybody who construes a passage of scripture as an excuse to persecute the Jews has failed to understand a major part of uscripture. They've failed to understand:
* The promise to Abraham to "bless those............ ..... ............. ............... ........... ... .............. ............. .........
Well now, whose surprised that the old testement doesn't go out of it's way to dishonor jews? It's the gospels, which were rendered in a manner to gain christian converts from the jewish population that put on the full court press.
I'm not denying that selective scripture has been used by anti-semites. But to do so was evil.
...and ever so easy, given that that was why it was written the way it was.
Their rejection caused him agony because He loved them so much. How you construe that into a mandate to kill Jews, I don't know.
Gee whiz, it is just so knowable, isn't it? Maybe good christians streamed out of easter sermons to kill jews in local ghettos in eastern europe with such regularity for 400 years by pure random chance. It couldn't have possibly had anything to do with graphic pictures implanted in people's heads from the pulpit of jewish crowds mocking and injuring jesus as he dragged his cross up the hill. I guess it's just going to have to remain a total mystery.
Hogwash!!! I've already shown you that there is a clear command in New Testament scripture to "give no offense to the Jew". The Old Testament which was written by Jews, says far worse things about the Jews than the New Testament does. That the New Testament records Jesus's encounters with the Jews for better or worse, is only reflective of the fact that Jesus was a Jewish Messiah in a Jewish nation who had come specifically to the Jews first. Compared to the Jews, the New Testament says Gentiles are dogs. Only one gospel was written specifically to convert Jews, and that's Mathew, which was concerned with showing how Jesus met the requirements of Old Testament prophecy to be the messiah, such as His lineage.
Mathew 15:21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. 28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Those Christians who went beyond defining differences in our faiths and witnessing to Jews to persecuting the Jews erred and violated the scriptures. They followed neither the example of Jesus, nor the example of Paul.