What was it about Jesus of Nazareth that got him nailed to the cross?

Question

Someone said it was because he was Jewish. Why was he charged with sedition, and eventually nailed to a cross?

Answer 1

He refused to be bound by their religious ideas. He befriended social outcasts. He insisted on understanding and applying the law of God in the light of its original intention, not according to the popular interpretation of the religious establishment. He insisted on healing sick people on the Sabbath day. He believed that healing people did not profane the Sabbath but honored it, because it was established by God for the rest and relief of human beings .



This attitude brought Jesus into conflict with the scribes, the official teachers of the law. Because of their influence, He was soon barred from preaching in the synagogues. But this was no great inconvenience. He simply gathered larger congregations to listen to Him on the hillside or by the lakeshore. He regularly illustrated the main themes of His preaching by parables. These were simple stories from daily life which would drive home some special point and make it stick in the hearer's understanding.



During the week before Passover in A. D. 30, Jesus taught each day in the Temple area, debating with other teachers of differing beliefs. He was invited to state His opinion on a number of issues, including the question of paying taxes to the Roman Emperor. This was a test question with the Zealots. In their eyes, to acknowledge the rule of a pagan king was high treason against God, Israel's true King.



Jesus replied that the coinage in which these taxes had to be paid belonged to the Roman emperor because his face and name were stamped on it. Let the emperor have what so obviously belonged to him, Jesus declared; it was more important to make sure that God received what was due Him.



This answer disappointed those patriots who followed the Zealot line. Neither did it make Jesus popular with the priestly authorities. They were terrified by the rebellious spirit in the land. Their favored position depended on maintaining good relations with the ruling Romans. If revolt broke out, the Romans would hold them responsible for not keeping the people under control. They were afraid that Jesus might provoke an outburst that would bring the heavy hand of Rome upon the city.



To block the possibility of an uprising among the people, the priestly party decided to arrest Jesus as soon as possible. The opportunity came earlier than they expected when one of the Twelve, Judas Iscariot, offered to deliver Jesus into their power without the risk of a public disturbance. Arrested on Passover Eve, Jesus was brought first before a Jewish court of inquiry, over which the high priest Caiaphas presided.



The Jewish leaders attempted first to convict Him of being a threat to the Temple. Protection of the sanctity of the Temple was the one area in which the Romans still allowed the Jewish authorities to exercise authority. But this attempt failed. Then Jesus accepted their charge that He claimed to be the Messiah. This gave the religious leaders an occasion to hand Him over to Pilate on a charge of treason and sedition.



While "Messiah" was primarily a religious title, it could be translated into political terms as "king of the Jews." Anyone who claimed to be king of the Jews, as Jesus admitted He did, presented a challenge to the Roman emperor's rule in Judea. On this charge Pilate, the Roman governor, finally convicted Jesus. This was the charge spelled out in the inscription fixed above His head on the cross. Death by crucifixion was the penalty for sedition by one who was not a Roman citizen.



With the death and burial of Jesus, the narrative of His earthly career came to an end. But with His resurrection on the third day, He lives and works forever as the exalted Lord. His appearances to His disciples after His resurrection assured them He was "alive after His suffering" . These appearances also enabled them to make the transition in their experience from the form in which they had known Him earlier to the new way in which they would be related to Him by the Holy Spirit.

Answer 2

Assuming he existed...it was because he was accused of inciting the Jewish people to rebellion against Rome by the members of the Jewish Sanhedrin, which was the governing body under the Roman governor. Now a big question is why Jesus is never mentioned in Any Roman documents of the time or even from that part of the world. One would think someone would have mentioned this person...but not one non-christian source as been identified and verified and a true source. So there may never have been a Jesus of Nazareth...he could be much like Robin Hood or King Arthur and more of a compilation of several people at various times.

Answer 3

What got Jesus nailed to the cross is His love for us. Sure He exposed the religious elite of the day - the Pharisees, Saducees and scribes - as fakes. You can read where He really gives it to them in Matthew 23. He also claimed to be God in the flesh. Read John 10 where He tells the disbelieving Jews, "I and My Father are One".

But the bottom line is that there had to be a sacrifice for our sins and Jesus was it. That's why He was really nailed to the cross.



For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. - John 3:16-17

Answer 4

Whatever His accusers claimed or what He was supposed to have said, have no meaning in the larger context of His crucifixion. Yahweh revealed His plan hundreds of years beforehand in the form of prophetic word.



The set of prophecies surrounding the birth and crucifixion of Jesus came to pass the same as the more than 3000 prophecies applicable to the period after the crucifixion, especially today.



If Yahweh states that something is going to happen - it happens! 500 years beforehand, David tells us how He is going to die when crucifixion is an unknown method at the time - and it comes to pass.



So Yahweh's Word is what got Jesus nailed to the cross - it never fails.

Answer 5

The official charges were trying to incite a Jewish revolt against the Roman empire by claiming to be a king of the Jews. He didn't claim that, his followers did, but I guess the Romans weren't convinced of his innocence. What with all the crowds gathering around wherever he went, hailing the king and probably shouting anti-Roman slogans.

Answer 6

The Jewish leaders of his time wanted him to raise them up above others but Jesus told them he was no part of the earthly governments. He would not feed their egos he did not join their good old boys club. Jesus taught people of all kinds he did not discriminate. The Jewish leaders of his time called the people of their time homitzs which means people of the dirt. Because Jesus started to teach the less educated ones and proved that they were not following the principles of God and called them hypocrites they could not deny the lies they were telling so they had to kill him.

Answer 7

Jesus was crucified for our salvation (the spiritual plan), however the Romans under Pilatus crucified him because they were afraid that if they didn't, the jews might make a uprising in Palestine, something that Pilatus didn't want the Emperor know about.

Answer 8

If you believe the bible it was mainly because he was said to be king of the jews. This upset the jewish kings and the clerical heirachy.

He was tried by the Romans who were pressured into convicting him even though they wanted to ignore him and release him.



basically he fell foul of politics.....so not much changed there then.....

Answer 9

Blasphemy was the all encompassing charge...



...though, I suspect there were plenty of people who claimed to be the awaited Messiah in Jesus' days, and many more who claimed to be sons of gods and goddesses.



The Pharisees were offended by Jesus, and murdered him out of spite and hate.

Answer 10

he claimed he was the son of God and he was people who said he don't read this "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life

Answer 11

He told people He was God/the Son of God (I never knew which He claimed publicly) which frightened people, and never recanted.

Answer 12

God wanted Him to die in that way.



Acts 2:22 "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know-- 23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

Answer 13

Allot of people didn't like him because he claimed to be the son of God. He had allot of haters but God (being as clever as he is) used this as a part of his plan.

Answer 14

attempting to incite a rebellion essentially.

Answer 15

It was for claiming he was God.



Although he never actually claimed that, his followers did.

Answer 16

He was never taken to a cross

Answer 17

Went around turning everyone's water into wine.

Answer 18

He was nailed to the cross because he had a nice frame

Answer 19

hammer