Why did they kill Jesus

[Flame4]

Why did the Jewish leaders at the time want to put Jesus to death?
Also, why did Judas betray Jesus? I have a hard time believing it was just the silver.

Thank You in advance

 

[HickmanJosh]

Why did the Jewish leaders at the time want to put Jesus to death?
Also, why did Judas betray Jesus? I have a hard time believing it was just the silver.

Thank You in advance

Ok Jesus throughout his three years of teaching had said many times that the Jewish leaders were hypocrets and glutons in a world of poor people, the pharasies were fearful that Jesus would

#1 Raise a bloody rebellion against Rome
#2 Throw them out of the temple

They also did not belive in his divinity.

We might not ever know exactly why Judas did what he did but it was
A) For money (doubtful)
B) To stop Jesus From starting a bloody uprising
C) To test Jesuses Divinity

 

[John7]

why did Judas betray Jesus? I have a hard time believing it was just the silver.

Thank You in advance

I think that money played a part

1. Jesus was anointed
   Matthew 26:7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. 8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.2) Can see that verse 9 was spoken by Judas Isc. because of
   John 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,
   5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?”
   6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.3) after Judas said this, then
   John 13:2 And supper being ended, **the devil **having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;4) then
   Matthew 26:14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, 15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

-So this is the way I think of it:
Jesus gets anointed with expensive ointment that Judas sees as the waste. Since Judas was a thief he could have had some/all of the money that the ointment could have been sold for. Judas was probably still upset with this when the devil entered into him. The devil, I believe tempted him by using his love for money, to somehow make a profit from Jesus. Judas knew (I believe) that the chief priests were ‘after’ Jesus and schemed that through what he knew (ie the location where the Jewish authorities could apprehend Jesus at the Mount of Olives) he could make a profit from Jesus. Judas failed to overcome the temptation and received the money instead. So with respect to money, three things acted together for Judas to betray Jesus: being a thief, his lust for money, and being possessed by the devil.

 

[Flame4]

Thx.
I did suspect the Pharisees were upset by what Jesus said to them (brought out what was in their hearts.)

 

[patrick457]

Why did the Jewish leaders at the time want to put Jesus to death?

Simple.

In one sense, the Temple priesthood and the Romans saw Jesus as a potential threat to the status quo, like the other ‘messiahs’ at that time who were roaming the country and gaining popularity for themselves. All their lives, they have risked to keep peace with Rome in order to preserve the Temple and the nation; anyone who tries to mislead the people and upset the balance must be taken off the picture before it is too late.

Also, around the end of His earthly life, Jesus often talked about the Kingdom of God - this in an empire that already had Caesar. One could also argue that one of the charges that got Jesus executed was for being “King of the Judeans”, as the placard above His head says.

Lawbreaking, being a ‘false prophet’, blasphemy, sedition - these would have been some of the charges that could have been laid on Jesus.

 

[patrick457]

Thx.
I did suspect the Pharisees were upset by what Jesus said to them (brought out what was in their hearts.)

What’s interesting is that while the Gospels do often note how the oft-appearing Pharisees wanted to kill Jesus, it was mainly the barely-mentioned Sadducees (in the form of “the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders”) who actually do the job, at least in the way the Evangelists portray it.

They also had their motivations: they are the aristocratic elite of Judea and were mainly the ones who ran the Temple (it being central to their conservative theology). One day this Galilean hick who was already brewing trouble comes in here riding on a donkey, being praised by crowds as a king and then upsetting the Temple market, which probably proved to be the last straw for them: He’s gotta go because He’s proving to be too dangerous.

So, that’s why they were sad, you see.

 

[Humble_Pie]

Also, look at it from the Roman point of view.

As the Romans saw it, Passover week celebrated Jewish emancipation from a hostile foreign conqueror (the Egyptians). In essence, the Jews are celebrating freedom from oppression and foreign control while at the same time being oppressed and controlled by the Romans. It was probably a tenderbox atmosphere in Roman-occupied Jerusalem during the Passover, and I imagine the Romans had a zero tolerance policy towards ANY disruptions that could be construed as “rebellious”. Certainly Jesus’ scene in the temple with the money changers could have been interpretted that way, and it’s possible that His entry into the City on a donkey could have been seen as a type of “demonstration” as well (since any self respecting Roman king would have entered the city on a warhorse or battle chariot).

I know he doesn’t earn a terrible amount of respect from Catholics, but John Dominic Crossan has written several books about this very subject, including “Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus”, and “The Last Week”. If you can sift through some of his more odd theories, he adds some really interesting historical background and probabilities to the events that led up to Jesus’ death.