[Voir Dire]

The perpetuation of "the Jews killed Christ" dogma is nothing more than thinly-veiled rationalization for anti-Semitism.

[Doc Savage]

With whom did Judas Iscariot deal with? He didn't betray Christ to the Romans. Why would the Romans want him dead? The last thing they needed was another martyr.

Why do people like you always feel compelled to "pull the monkey off the backs" of the Jews?

Clearly, Christ, a Jew, was betrayed by a Jew, to the Jewish temple aristocracy. Clearly the Jews demanded his death. Who nailed him to the cross is only incidental here.

You should elucidate your compulsion to post things like this so we can better understand your motives.

Are you a Jew? Do you have ties to the author? Explain your motivation.

[rabidralph]

Really?

[LS]

It is true the Jews (collectively) did not kill Jesus, nor, by law could they. However, it is also true that Peter many times specifically reminded the Jewish RELIGIOUS LEADERS of "Christ, whom YOU crucified." Not the Romans. Peter clearly laid the crucifixion on the Jewish religious leaders---and, of course, Peter was a Jew.

The Jewish religious leaders themselves ASSUMED the total responsibility when Pilate washed his hands and they said, "His blood be upon us and our children."

I get concerned when we drift so far in the opposite direction of "anti-semitism" that we try to paper over what the Jewish RELIGOUS LEADERS did. Isreal wa a spiritually dead nation: Jesus said so many times. Paul said so, many times. They got that way by following their spiritually dead religious leaders. Obviously, not all because scripture says that the disciples---before they decided to follow Jesus---searched the scriptures and concluded He was the Messiah, as did thousands of other Jews.