[george wythe]

First Letter from St Paul to the Thessalonians chapter 2

¹⁴For you, brothers, became imitators of God's churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches suffered from the Jews, ¹⁵who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men

[ahayes]

The problem with just throwing out I Thess. 2:14-15 is it isn't the whole story. Allowing the annoying liberals to get on one's nerves and just replying belligerantly, "Of course the Jews killed Jesus" is playing into their hands and doing Christ's witness no favor. Yes, the Jews of that time did ask for his crucifixion, but every person who has lived and will live shares the responsibility for his death.