There can be no argument that Jew hatred and modern anti-Semitism began as a result of the death of Jesus which gospel writers falsely attributed to the Jews. The consequences of this untrue narrative led to unceasing Christian hatred of the Jewish nation and the maltreatment of millions of our people for the past 2,000 years.<\/p>\n\n
Christians in various parts of the world have hounded and persecuted Jews, robbing, wounding and killing them in every shameful way. Leading finally, to the plunder and murder of more than 6,000,000 Jews at the hands of the German people in Europe during the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n
Given the intense hatred of the Jews by the Christian world, it is not surprising that Christians in other European countries voluntarily and even eagerly lent their bloody hands to the inhuman Germans in murdering our people in the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n
All decent countries prevent their courts from trying someone merely for being the relative of a criminal. Yet this moral doctrine has never prevented Christian communities in Europe and Russia from setting fire to synagogues packed with men, women and children for no other \u201ccrime\u201d\u009d than being born Jewish.<\/p>\n\n
Especially pernicious was the entirely fictitious accusation that Jews needed the blood of a Christian child to bake matzos for Passover! This horrendous lie highlights the total ignorance of Christians to the fact that Jewish kosher laws actually prevented Jews from ever imbibing a single drop of blood! And that means human or animal.<\/p>\n\n
The anti-Semitic hatred which the trumped-up crimes Christianity inflicted on Jews over the centuries reached a peak in the plunder and murder of over six million Jews by the Germans and their willing Christian cohorts in the 1940`s. Nor can we overlook the fact that Christians still find it necessary to punish Jews for the impossible crime of deicide! (How can mere mortals kill God?)<\/p>\n\n
Tragically, Christian anti-Semitism continues to persecute Jews to this day for the crime our ancestors were alleged to have committed 2,000 years ago, namely responsibility for the Romans killing Jesus.<\/p>\n\n
Sadly, Christian anti-Semitism alleges Jews killed Jesus. This allegation is manifestly untrue despite its appearance in the New Testament. It was the Romans who clearly tried Jesus for the so called crime of being king of the Jews. And for which Pontius Pilate, the Roman Prefect, tried and sentenced Jesus to be crucified.<\/p>\n\n
The New Testament avers that the Sanhedrin, the supreme court of the Jews, had Jesus arrested on Thursday evening, the first night of Passover, for claiming to be the messiah. And that the Sanhedrin handed him over to the Romans for trial which took place Friday morning (Good Friday), the first day of Passover.<\/p>\n\n
However the Sanhedrin had nothing whatever to do with the arrest of Jesus since this was the job of the police and\/or the prosecution. The job of the Sanhedrin’s 71 judges only required them to judge suspected persons brought to them for trial and sentencing. Here are the four specific reasons we can be quite certain the Sanhedrin had absolutely nothing to do with the trial and death of Jesus, as alleged in the New Testament.<\/p>\n\n
First<\/strong>, in those historic times Jews simply expected that their true messiah would free them from the yoke of their oppressors. Nevertheless, although Jesus believed he was the messiah, the fact that he did not free his fellow Jews from the Roman yoke was not a crime. Certainly not one which deserved the death penalty.<\/p>\n\n Second<\/strong>, neither the Sanhedrin nor the Temple police would have been involved in work of any kind on Thursday evening and the first two days of Passover. This was because work of any kind was strictly forbidden to Jews from the beginning of Passover on Thursday evening, nor on Friday and Saturday, the first two days of Passover.<\/p>\n\n Third<\/strong>, the Sanhedrin never<\/em> held trials in the evening.<\/p>\n\n Fourth<\/strong>, the Sanhedrin never passed sentence on anyone until 24 hours after<\/em> the conclusion of a trial.<\/p>\n\n Thus we have proof positive the Sanhedrin had absolutely nothing to do with Jesus on Thursday evening nor on Friday of that bitter week.<\/p>\n\n Yet regardless of these incontrovertible facts the New Testament blames the Sanhedrin for arresting Jesus on Thursday evening and handing him over to the Romans on Friday.<\/p>\n\n Clearly no such episode was necessary – nor could it have taken place. For we can be certain that all 71 august judges of the Sanhedrin were, without doubt, at prayer on the Thursday evening and Friday, the next day of Passover.<\/p>\n\n Absolute nonsense.<\/p>\n\n The New Testament alleges that Judas betrayed Jesus to the Sanhedrin by identifying him with a kiss. However, this also makes no sense because the Sanhedrin and Temple authorities knew Jesus rather well – as a result of the consternation he caused by overthrowing the tables of the moneychangers and also by chasing them out of the temple!<\/p>\n\n Indeed, the Sanhedrin not only knew who Jesus was but also where to find him – if they wanted him. They knew where he prayed and where he preached, as Jesus reminds us in Matthew 26:55, where he says: \u201cI sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n\n It follows as day follows night that the Sanhedrin had no need to hire Judas to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. They knew exactly where to find him if they wanted him. No such contract was therefore needed nor is it conceivable that the nation`s supreme court of 71 august judges would have entered into such a demeaning arrangement. Unfortunately, this shameful, untrue story became a successful device for Christians to pin the death of Jesus onto the Jews of those days.<\/p>\n\n The New Testament also relates that Pilate offered to invoke a Passover tradition whereby someone under sentence of death would be freed. And that Pilate offered to free Jesus or Barabbas \u201d\u201c whomever the Jews chose. Barabbas was a criminal worthy of his death sentence; Jesus was not. The gospels allege that a motley chorus of Jews shouted for Barabbas to be freed.<\/p>\n\n Two problems face Christians here: first is the fact that this motley of Jews were in the temple saying their Passover prayers. Second is the fact that no such Passover custom ever existed! For although vigorously investigated by historians over hundreds of years, not a scintilla of evidence regarding this alleged Passover custom has ever been found!<\/p>\n\n Truth and common sense force us to accept that no such tradition ever existed. Unfortunately, the invention of Pilates` imaginary custom became the Christ Killer justification for Jewish persecution. Resulting in the death of millions of Jews.<\/p>\n\n Nor can one forget the theft of Jewish wealth over the past 2,000 years.<\/p>\n\n What undoubtedly happened was that Pilate had Jesus arrested and tried for being the messiah – which Pilate interpreted as Jesus claiming to be king of the Jews.<\/p>\n\n When the Jews saw Pilate had crowned Jesus with a band of thorns on which was written: \u201cKing of the Jews\u201d\u009d they protested that Jesus was not their king \u201d\u201c only that he claimed to be. They asked Pilate to correct his title but Pilate curtly responded: \u201cWhat I have written I have written\u201d\u009d. (John 19:22). The Jews understood they`d better not argue with this Roman Prefect.<\/p>\n\n Rome had no desire to face yet another insurrection by the vexatious Jews. Finding Jesus guilty of being an enemy of Rome, Pilate hurried to have him crucified. Tragically the gospel writers shifted responsibility for the death of Jesus at the hands of the Romans onto the Jews – resulting in over 2,000 years of Christian anti-Semitism. Sadly, this \u201cChrist Killer\u201d\u009d lie is still going strong to this day.<\/p>\n\n Before the trial, the New Testament relates that Jesus had a premonition of his coming death. While in the garden of Gethsemane Jesus prayed to God to spare him, saying: \u201cO My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” (Matthew 26:39).<\/p>\n\n Jesus beseeched God a second time, saying: “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me unless I drink it, your will be done.” (Mathew 26:42).<\/p>\n\n On the cross about three that (Good) Friday afternoon when Jesus feels he is about to die, he cries in a loud voice, \u201cEli, Eli, lama sabachthani?\u201d\u009d. This translates as \u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d\u009d (Matthew 27:46).<\/p>\n\n No. Jesus never blamed the Jews for his impending death. He believed unwaveringly that his life was in God How remarkable then that the gospel writers succeeded in pinning the blame for the death of Jesus, not on God, not on the Romans who arrested, tried, sentenced and crucified him, but on the Jews who did absolutely nothing to bring about his death. And not only on the Jews of Jesus` day but, incredibly, on all Jews, in all lands, for all time as the New Testament alleges.<\/p>\n\n The power of the world`s greatest lie has been responsible for 2,000 years of anti-Semitic persecution and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Jews over the centuries in Europe and Russia. Finally resulting in the plunder and murder of over 6 million innocent, defenseless Jews by the Germans during the Hitler regime.<\/p>\n\n To their eternal shame, hordes of Christians in other European countries voluntarily and willingly assisted the Germans in carrying out their uncivilized barbaric crusade of murdering the Jews of Europe.<\/p>\n\n Foisting responsibility for the death of Jesus upon the Jews must unarguably and shamefully be the greatest lie ever told!<\/b><\/p>\n\n { } { } { }<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Despite the fact that Jesus was tried and found guilty by Pontius Pilate, the Gospels held the Jews responsible for the death of Jesus, their messiah. 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The Barabbas Deception<\/h1>\n\n
Trial and crucifixion<\/h1>\n\n
King of the Jews<\/h1>\n\n
Jesus begged God to spare him<\/h1>\n\n
Jesus appeals once more<\/h1>\n\n
\u201cWhy have you forsaken me?\u201d\u009d<\/h1>\n\n
Did Jesus blame the Jews?<\/h1>\n\n
s hands and hoped God, his father, would save him. Sadly God did not grant his wish and, submitting to his father<\/code>s will, Jesus died on the cross. It bears emphasizing that God held the fate of Jesus in His hands. God could have saved him but He did not.<\/p>\n\nThe world`s greatest lie<\/h1>\n\n