JESUS: WHY WAS HE KILLED!? (PART 1)

Majority of the Believers of the Christian Faith don't know the reason why Jesus died and why He was killed. They are two different things. There was a reason why He came to the world (Israel) to die and a reason why He was killed by the religious Leaders of His time.

The first part of this article will expose the reason He (Jesus) was killed before going into why He had to die. If you want to get the best of this article, I'll advice you to read with an open mind. For a while, do away with the things you've been taught religiously about Jesus Christ from childhood.

Read to learn, not to judge or criticize.

If you ask an average Christian why Jesus was killed. His answer would be that He was meant to die. 

If He was meant to die, He could have committed suicide.

Jesus was killed for just one single reason.

He was different. He was a maverick. 

He didn't follow the status quo.

According to Jews, they didn't kill Jesus because He was a Messiah or claimed to be one.

There have been many that claimed they were the Messiah.

As at that time, the Jews were under the Romans.

They wanted freedom, a deliverer, a Messiah.

They had a mental projection of how the Messiah should be.

They wanted a military Messiah at that time. If it were to be another time. Probably, a period of famine. They would be expecting a Messiah that is a Farmer.

So when some people declared Jesus a Messiah. It didn't bother them.

He wasn't or didn't fit into what they were looking for.

So why did they have Him killed? As I said earlier, it was just for a reason.

He disregarded the Laws. And taught what was against the teachings in vogue at that time.

Majorly, His claims that He was the son of God, thereby making Himself equal with God.

Let me provide a scriptural reference.

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Joh 10:31-33 LOGOS 

31 Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 

32 Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?" 

33 The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

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Here is an account of a time they wanted to stone Him. They declared that if it was for good works (the miracles) He did, they had no issues with that.

But for blasphemy (a teaching contrary to the status quo).. That is, Jesus saying that He and God are one.

That kind of teaching demands they kill Him.

To them, Jesus wasn't a Messiah. He was a heretic. A deviant. A blasphemer. And the people were rushing to Him in thousands to listen to Him. That alone was enough for them to have Him killed.

He had disturbed their business. The people were no longer listening to them.

They were following Jesus and listening to His sermons.

As at the time of Jesus Christ, no one saw Him as a saviour or Messiah.

Even when Peter revealed who He was, he never mentioned Him being the saviour or Messiah.

No Jews believed in Him or saw Him as a Messiah.

It was after He died that He was 'Messiahed'.

To them, He was just an ordinary Man with incredible power of the miraculous.

And His teachings were strange and different from that of the religious leaders.

The people perhaps longed to hear something new or fresh. 

Immediately, an awakened Man began to say something different from what they had been hearing.

They were ready to listen.

After all, the Laws together with the teachings of the Laws was like a bondage to them.

Within, their hearts longed to be freed from sermons that made them fearful and weak.

It was exactly what Jesus taught or projected. He taught or allowed them to defy the sabbath.

He sat down and ate with 'sinners'. He had women as disciples.

He called God His Father. He disregarded the Laws and Moses.

He insulted the religious Leaders. Spoke outrightly against them.

He was just a different or an enlightened Man. Hence, the reason they had Him killed.

He wouldn't have gotten their attention if it were just miracles and teaching according the Laws of Moses.

He defied Moses and the religious institutions of His time.

That was the reason He was killed.

It wasn't because He was a saviour. It wasn't because He was a Messiah. They never regarded Him as one.

He wasn't killed because of the miracles (except the ones done on sabbath). 

He was killed for the truths He spoke.

Because He was enlightened. 

And taught differently. 

(To be continued) 

©The_Alchemist (aka D_Ark)