Why The Jews Tried To Kill Jesus

For ten years I have been trying to figure out why the Jews tried to throw Jesus off a cliff, and cause his death. Being a Biblical Scholar is like being a Heron – fishing! You stand and stand in one spot, as still and quiet as can be, in hope the answer will come. For thirty years I pondered this answer

‘And those who had laid hold of Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled….. And the high priest answered and said to Him, “I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!”

Jesus said to him, “It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”                             Matthew 26:57-64

“It is as you said!” It is as you prophesied before you knew of me! You said I would come, and here I am.

” as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,  and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.”

The Christian lie is that Caiaphas had Jesus killed in order to prevent Rome from destroying the nation of Israel. Why this concern for the Diaspora? And why is he calling him “the Christ, Son of God”? This term or title was not applied until a hundred years later, or more! Caiaphas is bidding Jesus to take an oath, then asks him;

“Are you the Messiah I foretold was coming in a prophecy?”

“It is as you said!”

“The word prophecy comes from the Greek verb, προφημι (prophemi), which means “to say beforehand, foretell”; it is a combination of the Greek words, προ and φημι. The Greek prefix προ also means “before,” “in front of,” so etymologically προφημι means to speak in front of, as a spokesperson.^[“

” but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation”

The common Jews in the synagogue had heard THE PROPHECY of Caiaphas, and were expecting THE MESSIAH any day. Why would they kill Their Messiah in order to thwart his mission – moments after he showed up?

So, here it is, after 2,000 long years. The reason the Jews tried to throw their Messiah Go’el Redeemer off a cliff, was because he came out of the wilderness, entered a synagogue, and read from Isaiah. This passage is reserved for the coming of the Savior of God’s Children – and never the Gentiles! He is going to reset God’s clock. He is going to smite the Roman World with a Terrible Day of God’s Judgment and Revenge. The Nationalistic Jews are elated. They could not wait. They hate the Romans. This is like God sending John Wayne to save America. If they had flags, they waved them! How about – cheerleaders?

They carried Jesus out of the Synagogue and brought him to the edge of a cliff. A ram’s horn was sounded. Whether he was thrown off there and then, is still a fish this Heron has not caught. But, you have enough knowledge to know the Jews did recognize their Savior, and thus, the only reason to kill him was to complete the Prophecy of their beloved High Priest Caiaphas – for the sake of the nation of God. Their Hero has come, ready to lay down his life – for his people!

I believe they were in Judea, and the people brought their Savior to Caiaphas, to be examined. This included a physical examination. So much as a birthmark, and Jesus is – out of there!

“I find no fault (blemish) in (on) this man!” are the words the Liars of Satan Paul put in Pilate’s mouth.

On this day, I find all Jews, for all time – INNOCENT of killing Jesus for any reason other than Restoring the Kingdom of God.

Jon Presco

Nazarite Judge

Copyright 2016

“So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,[j]
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”[k]

https://rosamondpress.com/2016/03/13/the-jews-did-not-kill-jesus/

The Patriotic Sons and Daughters of God

https://rosamondpress.com/2012/11/14/throwing-jesus-off-a-cliff-2/

The first attempt to kill Jesus by shoving him over a cliff, might be the first and last attempt. This would mean there was no crucifixion where Jesus dies for your sex sins. Jesus died to free God’s Children from the yoke of slavery, bring debt forgiveness to God’s Children, and restore the land of their anchestors to them. Here is the true motive for murder.

Jesus was a Socialist like God is a Socialist! If God was a Pharough, there would be no dialogue, no lessons of humility and mercy, and spiritual freedom. When the Christian church was taken over by Emperor Constantine, he did away with JESUS THE MAN, and buried the history of the Socialist Jubilee War with Rome. Why? Because he was a very rich man who wanted to tax all Christians – with the help of the Roman Catholic Church who put kings on thrones paid for with the little people’s taxes.

Just put this cliff scene at the end of the story, and know why the Truth was murdered.

“28 So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. 30 Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.”

“His way.” How did Jesus escape?

Answer……………….He didn’t!

Jon

Satan Tempts Jesus
4 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into[a] the wilderness, 2 being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.

3 And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

4 But Jesus answered him, saying,[b] “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”[c]

5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him[d] all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”

8 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan![e] For[f] it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”[g]

9 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here. 10 For it is written:

‘He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you,’

11 and,

‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’”[h]

12 And Jesus answered and said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”[i]

13 Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.

Jesus Begins His Galilean Ministry
14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. 15 And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,[j]
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”[k]

20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

23 He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum,[l] do also here in Your country.’” 24 Then He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. 25 But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; 26 but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath,[m] in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

28 So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. 30 Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.

Luke tells us in chapter 26 that Jesus was taken in the middle of the night to the home of Caiaphas for questioning. Frustrated at Jesus’ answers to their questions as to whether or not he claimed to be the Messiah, the scribes and priests hit Jesus in the face and spit on him in disgust. There are several problems with this gospel account:
1. It was against Jewish law for the Sanhedrin to meet outside of the designated Chamber of Hewn Stone in the Temple and would not have been violated under any circumstance.
2. The Sanhredrin had an express rule that it could not meet at night because justice must be carried out in the “light of day.”
3. Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem was probably during the Feast of the Tabernacles, not Passover. (the palm leaves strewn in front of Jesus as he entered Jerusalem would not have been in bloom during Passover) The Sanhedrin would not have met during the eight-day festival for any reason.
4. The Elders of the Sanhedrin would no more strike or spit on an accused person, than would the Supreme Court of the U.S. hearing a case! Luke’s account is completely out-of-context and shows remarkable ignorance as to the machinations of Jewish Law.
5. It was not blasphemous to declare oneself a “Messiah” or a “Son of God” any more than it would have been to claim to be an angel. The Pharisees who composed the majority of the Sanhredrin would dismiss such a charge at once since blasphemy could only be applied to anyone who claimed to be God Almighty. Jesus’ declaration that he was a Messiah, merely referred to his earthly desire to ascend to the throne of David–an act of sedition against Rome surely, but not one of blasphemy.
If the Gospel of John is to be our authority, his account disagrees with the Synopticists in that the High Priest Caiaphas interrogates Jesus alone and charges him with sedition, not blasphemy, as the Synoptic Gospels allege. Clearly, the pseudipigraphical author of John is not as ignorant of Jewish Law as are the Synopticists for his account is in context with our findings thus far. If Jesus were charged with sedition, then a gathering of the Sanhedrin would not be necessary, the affair would be preliminarily investigated by the High Priest before turning the matter over to the Roman authorities. (Indeed Caiaphas would not wish to involve the Sanhedrin if Jesus really was seditious. In the trial of Peter as reported in Acts, the Pharisees sided against the High Priest and voted to release the accused.)
We can safely conclude at this point that Jesus was indeed supportive of the Zealot movement if not in deed, then certainly in principle. If Jesus were seeking the throne as the evidence suggests, he would have enlisted the aid of the militant Zealots. Also his actions as a claimant to the throne of Israel–which surely would have involved a rebellion of some sort for the Romans were not likely to cede authority quietly–made him guilty of sedition against Rome. Jesus was a patriot for the restoration of Israel. His motives were political and the context of his actions as we find in the more credible portions of the Gospels supports this conclusion.
Further complicating the truth of the Gospel accounts is the motivations and actions of the Roman Procurator Pontius Pilate, whom Jesus is brought to by the High Priest. Jesus is handed over to Pilate, accused of sedition, and Pilate questions Jesus personally asking him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” to which Jesus replies “I am.” For some reason, the priests are said to go on “heaping accusations” against Jesus despite the fact that his sedition was clearly established by Jesus himself. Even stranger still, Pilate seems to not even care that Jesus claims to be the King of the Jews and Pilate “wonders” if Jesus is dangerous. (Mk 15:1-5) At this point the author of Mark is either blatantly ignorant of the facts, or spinning a good yarn for the sake of his overall story.
This account is quite out of context with the monster that Philo wrote Gaius Caesar about, reporting that Pilate was inflexible and “cruel.” Further, Josephus reports several occurances where Pilate flagrantly incites insurrection in order to ruthlessly purge it with his soldiers. Pilate was eventually recalled to Vitellius (then Legate of Syria) after a particularly violent attack on the Samaritans in 36 CE, and was ordered sent to Rome in order to stand accusations of the slaughter. (Antiquities 18.4.85) The anti-Semitic Pilate was not the sort of governor that would have acted with even the slightest civility toward a Jew who openly admitted to sedition. Pilate’s dismal record of purges and punishments against seditious behavior was anathema and history shows him to be one of, if not the cruelest of the Procurators of Judaea.
These irreconciable problems with the arrest and trial of Jesus show that the Gospel accounts cannot be trusted with the truth of the matter. With the mystique and misunderstanding surrounding Jesus’ arrest, coupled with the legend and myth attached to the accounts at later times, the truth may never be fully known. But we can surmise a few things: Jesus was a political figure and a claimant to the throne of Israel. His Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem as that of a long-awaited Messiah who would destroy the Romans and seize his rightful kingship ended in failure and crucifixion as a rebel.