About Those Christ-Killers... Before you blame the Jews, think twice

American Thinker ^ | 01/14/2024 | Cherie Zaslawsky

[SeekAndFind]

Ironically, Hamas’s gruesome attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, instead of unleashing a flood of criticism of jihadist Muslims, has turned up the fire under the apparently ever-simmering cauldron of anti-Semitism.

Everyone seems focused on Jews — even obsessed with them. But the loudest voices are those raised in condemnation of the Israelis, their supporters, and worldwide Jewry.

There are a number of tropes that Jew-haters dredge up on such occasions: the debunked but widely disseminated Soviet psy-op pamphlet The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; the Jews as Christ-killers; the popular trope that the Jews “own the banks”; claims they’re out to control the world as “Greater Israel”; claims they’re Satanists; and the blood libel, that they make Passover matzahs from the blood of Gentile children.

I’ll return to the “Christ-killer” charge shortly, but first let’s consider a few things one can reasonably blame the Jews for: one being Monotheism, another being the Bible — both the Old Testament and the New. Another being the moral code established in the Ten Commandments that has served as the cornerstone of Western Civilization.

Said another way, without those selfsame Jews so roundly denounced, hated, and not infrequently massacred throughout history, there would be no Bible, no Judaism, no Jesus, no Christianity, and no Western Civilization.

There’s a reason we have the phrase “the Judeo-Christian tradition.” It’s the foundation of the West and all the first-world nations, including the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. Especially in America, we have the Jews and the Bible to thank for our experimental government based on what Thomas Jefferson inscribed in the Declaration of Independence as our God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And these rights are “endowed by their Creator” — i.e. God, as revealed in the Bible

[SeekAndFind]

Returning to the “Christ-killers” accusation: In fact, it was the Romans — with their barbarously excruciating and deadly punishment of crucifixion — who killed Jesus. But yes, the Sanhedrin, the Jewish leadership at that time, did seek it. So let’s parse that.

First and foremost, the Sanhedrin didn’t speak for all the Jews. We know this for a fact from the New Testament and other historical records of the time. Christ’s disciples were...wait for it...Jews! And they clearly disagreed with the Sanhedrin’s charges against Christ.

So when anyone accuses “the Jews” of being “Christ-killers,” he means the Jewish government and leadership of the day.

Let me ask you a question: how many of us in America today agree with all of our government’s decisions? How many oppose much of what our government decrees? So why isn’t the charge against the Jews in the first century made factually: “The Jewish leadership condemned Jesus by charging him with blasphemy, and of claiming to be King of the Jews,” rather than “the Jews killed Christ”?

[SeekAndFind]

Suppose the Sanhedrin leadership had said, “Free Jesus, and crucify the thief Barabbas instead!” What would have been the result? No sacrificial death of Jesus on the Cross means everyone carries his own sins on his back — the wages of sin being death. It means no salvation by grace through faith. It means no eternal life in heaven.

Not to put too fine a point upon it: According to the New Testament, it means damnation.

In other words, from the Christian point of view, it was God’s plan all along that Jesus, the most famous Jewish rabbi in history, suffer death on the Cross on Passover, as the Lamb of God who died for the sins of everyone else.

[Olog-hai]

All of humanity is guilty of the Messiah’s blood. But it is that shed blood that redeems humanity and His resurrection and life that saves humanity (Romans 5:10).

[Mr Rogers]

Pretty sure it was MY sin - along with others - that resulted in Jesus dying...

[Kriggerel]

That’s not the only old canard that’s become hot and trendy all over again.

“The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” is once again hot, “textbook” learning amongst the “woke” and trendy, as is, likewise, the Khazar Canard, and the old idea that the House of (((Rothschild))) is somehow the cause of all wars.

I’ve lost count of how many online discussions I’ve seen, where someone feels the need to trot out variations of the statement that there were (apparently) no Jews in Palestine prior to 1948, because they (apparently) all converted to Islam and became Palestinians... (blah blah blah) “The modern, so-called “Jews” are AshkeNAZI Khazar, Euro-Turkic impostors and invaders!” blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda...

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Though I no longer have the text, I had for years a "Life of Christ" by a cardinal, who overtly wrote that the gospels were "inerrant" in all things except one. That one was the textual fact that the Roman centurions carried out the execution. His scurrilous condemnation of scripture was that it "erred" in not telling the "truth" that Jews killed Jesus. Throughout the centuries, this kind of "error" has been amplified to justify Jew hatred. This, and the first Arabic translation of "Mein Kampf" which was made in Cairo, tells a tale of basic Jew hatred masked as "theology" or "politics."

Today we are encouraged to forget -- or not learn --

“O you who have believed [ Muslims ], do not take the J * w s and the Nasara ( Christians ) as friends. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” Quran 5:51.

What was old is made sadly new again and again.

[chopperk]

Thought the Romans killed Christ.

[MNDude]

Sahih al-Bukhari, 5134; Book 67, Hadith 70: “The Prophet [ﷺ] married Aisha when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old.”

Talmud Sanhedrin 54b in response: “Hold my beer.”

[Tench_Coxe]

Ever since mankind accepted the false promise of "and you shall be like God", the death of Christ is on all of us.

And within three days, the temple was rebuilt....

[Big Red Badger]

Jesus laid down His life willingly and Rose again to show it was an acceptable sacrifice for the sins of the World.

[MNDude]

“claims they’re Satanists; and the blood libel, that they make Passover matzahs from the blood of Gentile children.”

You gotta admit, when you have characters like Marina Abramovic (friend of Podestas) painting on the walls with blood about how she intends to make bread that contains menstruation blood, semen, and breast milk, people are going to get some crazy ideas.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3EsJLNGVJ7E&pp=ygUiTWFyaW5hIEFicmFoYW1ob3ZpYyBzcGlyaXQgY29va2luZw%3D%3D

[Beowulf9]

The Romans and the Sanhedrin were a pair alright.

But that period in Roman history is the most interesting.

[telescope115]

What a great article! Spot on. I have a brother-in-law who has, as long as I’ve known him, blamed the Jews for all sorts of things. He has issues and opinions o all sorts of things, very few of them are right. I’m glad he’s in another state.

[silent majority rising]

Romans killed Christ then. Romans are killing the Catholic Church now..

[Vermont Lt]

“ the popular trope that the Jews “own the banks”

I worked at a top 20 bank. I regularly interacted with the “C-suite” and Board of Directors.

They tended to be well educated, driven, arrogant, and some if them were greedy.

None of them were Jews.

[DSH]

My own starting point for thinking about this issue is, what does Scripture say?

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"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men."

Acts 2:22-23.

"And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk? 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. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses."

Acts 3:12-15

"Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well."

Acts 4:8-10

"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it."

Acts 7:51-52

"For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins."

1 Thessalonians 2:14-15.

[Scrambler Bob]

Thanks
Let’s hear from GOD!

Sorry, Jews, God says you did it.

[RedMonqey]

The “Christ killer” charge is a lot older than the Soviets. It was deeply ingrained in Christian Europe way before the Hitler or Lenin.
It was called “blood libel” and was effectively used by antisemite s.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Sahih al-Bukhari, 5134; Book 67, Hadith 70: “The Prophet [ﷺ] married Aisha when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old.” Talmud Sanhedrin 54b in response: “Hold my beer.”

I don't get the comment. I just spent some time looking through the web page --

Source: https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.55a.6?lang=bi

--- and did not come across what perhaps you may have intended. The references to age nine seem to be about differing reasoning, but all acts with those under nine are prohibited, as with homosexual acts and more for those above that stated age. Or do you read it differently?

[Lake Living]

“No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
John 10:18

Yes, we’re all guilty, some more than others but ultimately... Jesus laid down his life for us all.