Referring to my Blog on ‘Fox publishes survey on Jews Killed Jesus in Facebook’, I received a communication from The MackQuigley Report © to refer to their site for information which I am reproducing here.
We need to remember the society in which Jesus lived.
He lived among the people of Jewish Faith -in fact Jesus and Joseph were Jewish with Romans ruling them.
The Disciples of Jesus were of Jewish extract.
One of them betrayed him as believed.
So when one has to refer to some one apart from his name, especially if you have to name a crowd, you tend to refer the ethnicity,tribe or the race they belong to.
How else could some one give a reference?
This is akin to the statement that” all Muslims are terrorists’ or ‘All Germans were Nazis’ which is non- sense.
Any society will have its Judas and crackpots and Megalomaniacs.
To name the race for the mistakes of an individual, is immature.
One must remember that The Bible was compiled nearly after 300 years after Jesus and that too in a conclave of the Cardinals assembled at the behest of Constantine to suit his political ambitions.
Let me leave it at that.
There is no point in talking about some thing which might have happened or had happened.
One must move on in Life.
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Perhaps the only thing more ridiculous than thinking “pope” Ratzinger could declare the Jews exonerated of the blood of Christ, would be accepting ex-Anglican now Roman Catholic traditionalist“bishop” Richard Williamson‘s announcement that the Jews are guilty of “deicide” – a made-up word that the Bible never uses – implying that Christ’s death as a man was the death of God, and therefore man killed God. (Catholics play similar word-games to blasphemously call Mary the “mother of God”).
Ignoring all that superstitious blather, the Bible believer can determine and declare the absolute truth on the matter from the real Final Authority – the Authorized Version of 1611. In that Book we read the following:
The Jews plotted to Kill Jesus Christ:
“After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.”John 7:1.
“I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” John 10:29-33.
Christ said the Jews would be to blame for killing him:
“31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” Matthew 23:31-37.
Those Jews that knew better consented by their silence:
“Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” John 12:42-43.
Not just leaders, but “all the people” demanded Christ’s death at the price of their own guilt:
“And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answeredall the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.” Matthew 27:33
“And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. … And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.” John 19:16.
When Peter testified to them of their guilt they plotted to kill him also:
http://mackquigley.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/jews-christ-killers/
Foot Note.
Had Christ said the words attributed to him, don’t you think it runs contrary to his teachings of ‘Love Thy enemy’?
Let people follow Jesus’s teachings and not what some report wherever it is from.
What is said is important than who said.
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