Posted on 04/11/2021 1:27:36 PM PDT by metmom
“The chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, in order that they might put Him to death” (Matthew 26:59).
The only evidence of guilt against Jesus was man-made and contrived.
The essence of the Jews’ ancient legal system is found in the Lord’s words to Moses and Israel: “You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial” (Deut. 16:19). Therefore, it is truly amazing to consider what twisted measures the Jewish leaders resorted to in their trial of Jesus.
The Council, or Sanhedrin, was authorized to judge only those cases in which charges already had been brought. But in Jesus’ case, with no formal charges yet made and with the Jews’ rush to judgment, the Council had to act illegally as a prosecuting body to keep the chief priests’ murder plot moving forward.
As the sinless Son of God, Jesus was innocent of any wrongdoing. Therefore, the only way for the Jews to convict Him was to obtain false testimony against Him. And to do that, the leaders had to pervert the very heart of their judicial system and endorse the words of liars.
But the Jews quickly found it was not easy even to manipulate and assemble false charges. As is so often the case with liars, what they testified to was not only false but inconsistent. Mark’s Gospel notes that even the two witnesses’ more usable charges about Jesus and the destruction of the temple were not consistent (14:57-59).
It is one of the strongest affirmations in the Bible to Christ’s moral and spiritual perfection that not a single human witness could make an accusation that would convict Him of a crime. After all the desperate maneuvering by the Jews to come up with even the flimsiest testimony against the Lord, He stood innocent of any violation of God’s moral or spiritual law. Instead, it is the unjust, hateful group of men that will one day stand before God condemned for their sinful actions in falsely accusing the Savior.
Suggestions for Prayer
Pray for wisdom and integrity in the judges who make decisions in today’s courtrooms.
For Further Study
Read Deuteronomy 16:18-20 and 19:15-20. How do these passages show that Jesus’ trial before the Sanhedrin was based on wrong principles (list several factors)?
Studying God’s Word ping
How interesting that you entitle your thread "The Unjust Conspiracy", yet you level, without hesitation, very serious and completely unproved accusations against Jews. The accounts of the trial/death of J.C. were written hundreds of years after the fact. Ever play the game "Post Office", where someone whispers a message to the person next to them, and that person whispers the message to the person next to THEM, etc.? And compare the message finally recited by the last person in the circle? My point is, over hundreds of years, it is perfectly possible for imperfect recitations, individuals' different takes on the message, or errors in transcription to creep in, completely changing the meaning or version of the account.
Secondly, Pontius Pilate, according to accounts by Philo, Josephus, and others, was a mean dude. He was known to be violent, fond of executions without trial, and enjoyed watching his soldiers attack, beat, even kill Jews for no reason at all. Yet you exonerate the Romans of any blame for the execution of J.C. and place the the blame solely on the Jews. I am not buying that. And the fact that J.C. was crucified doesn't wash either; crucifixion was not a Jewish method of execution, those being stoning, burning, slaying, and strangling.
You sling charges against the Jews of the time of "false testimony", "twisted measures," and "false charges"; you refer to the "Jews' rush to judgment"; you completely ignore the fact that Jews were under the rule of Pontius Pilate and were not able to act so independently. You accuse the holiest men of the Jewish nation, the high priests, of conducting a "murder plot". Pope Benedict absolutely exonerated Jews as the killers of J.C. But you insist on rehashing the old faithful of false statements and posting it as though it were true.
I clearly remember dreading every Xmas and every Easter in school, as it was during those times I and every other Jewish kid had "You killed J.C." shouted at them. Apparently this seemed to escape the mind of the accusers during the other times of the year, but at those two times, they "remembered". I didn't take that from them now and I am not about to take this ignorant slur against my people now. Where did you get this lovely piece of untruth? Stormfront?
Ever read Psalms 22?
Wait just a dam* minute.
Metmom posted an article that, if you’d slow down enough to read, is authored by John MacArthur. Metmom did not write it. Slow down a second, EinNYC. Take a breath.
You don’t have to take anything from anybody. You got that right. And Metmom doesn’t have to take it from you.
I happen to love the Jews and run to their defense when I see wrong. I’m sure Metmom has no grudges against the Jews.
She posts the articles faithfully each day. Surely you’ve notice???
I didn’t write the devotional. I am not John MacArthur.
This article is not about the Jewish nation as a whole. It was about some of the ruling body of Israel at that time and not all of the pharisees agreed to this move.
In every religion there are those who are in it for personal gain. For them it’s a means to an end, and that end is, as usual, power and control. But again, that is not a reflection of the entire nation of Israel as a whole.
That said, according to recorded Scripture, the Jewish leaders in those days said to let His blood be on them. They were the ones who took the responsibility. Pilate was no doubt a ruthless dictator, but he tried, by all accounts, to free Jesus, recognizing that He had broke no Roman law, that the issues were between Him and those few Jewish leaders over religious issues.
For sure the Romans crucified Jesus. The Jews did not do that. No argument there from me. And they should not, and I believe will not, be exonerated by God for the cruelty they inflicted on others.
I am truly sorry for what you and other Jews experienced at the hands of many who call themselves “Christians”. No genuine Christian could ever justify that level of hatred towards the Jewish people. Scripture teaches that Jesus was Jewish and for a person to call themselves Christian to express those kinds of feeling against Jews would do it towards Jesus as well. No Christian should ever be blaming the Jewish people as a whole for the actions of a few.
I don’t see that as being much different than all the people in, say NYS, being blamed for cuomo getting elected, when it’s really a small group in NYC and vote fraud that got him in. And then the same ignorant types say that those NYers got what they deserved. Well, not all of us because I know plenty of people who did not vote for cuomo and do not deserve the condition the state is in.
It’s completely inconsistent with genuine Christian faith to disparage the Jews and hate those perceived to be enemies. That goes completely against everything Jesus taught and lived. But Satan gets his best mileage out of types like that, and like the Westboro group, people who take the name of God and debase it by acting in a manner completely contrary to what God teaches. That does indeed break the second commandment of not taking the Lord’s name in vain.
God will hold them accountable for that.
In the meantime, those of genuine Christian faith pray for Israel and the Jewish people, and respect and honor them as God’s chosen people.
according to recorded Scripture, the Jewish leaders in those days said to let His blood be on them.
Such scripture to which you refer was written hundreds of years after the fact. And the entire argument for this rests upon one or two statements, the veracity of which cannot be proven beyond doubt. And, as I pointed out, the Jews were among the nations conquered by the Romans and under their stringent rule. No way would they undertake turning in a Jew to non-Jewish authorities let alone undertake to take his life by such a means.
Matthew, who records the acceptance of the blame by the Jewish leaders, was himself a Jew and a contemporary of Jesus.
The original manuscripts were written by eyewitnesses to the events, not transcribed hundreds of years later. Some religions claim that to try to weaken reliance on Scripture and strengthen the claims of authority of their church.
His comment here demonstrates that......
Instead, it is the unjust, hateful group of men that will one day stand before God condemned for their sinful actions in falsely accusing the Savior.
Again, I am sorry for what you experienced at the hands of faux Christians, and that this article hit such a nerve as a result.
In the gospels, a group of Jewish leaders were continuing to plot how to get rid of Him throughout His years of ministry.
Whether motivated by power or a genuine fear of retaliation by the Romans, they wanted Him to cease and desist and disappear.
Considering how the JEWISH record (the OT) indicates that Jews were quite capable of killing entire tribes that came against them, is it possible that what we read in Acts is true?
Acts 3:13-15 English Standard Version
13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him. 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
When was Genesis chapters 1 thru 3 written?
If Pope Benedict said we weren't responsible for the death of J.C., that's good enough for me.
I doubt you'll be happy with this, but here is your wish:
But even Benedict endorsed the book that says y'all were!
What should we 'believe'??
Something they might merely say or what they have compiled and taught?
Surely you've been on FR enough to realize that even Catholics don't like what popes say from time to time!
LOL!
You slander the Jews in Biblical times based on very sketchy evidence and then post that slander here. You crow about your “triumph”, “proof” that the Jews killed J.C. Sorry, I don’t buy your pathetic claim based on merest slivers of highly questionable evidence.
Elsie, you are obviously ignorant and base your entire premise on a single source, the interpretation of which is surely more sophisticated than what you take and post from it. Go ahead and flame away, I could care less.
Sorry, I wouldn't waste my time reading that. It does not pertain to my life.
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