Originally Posted by ilnjscb

I'm looking for the Jews in this ... looking ... looking ...

Is it possible the Roman empire killed him, and then when they wrote the bible 400 years later at the council of Nicea ordered by Constantine who had most of his family executed they decided to throw someone else under the bus? Just a question.

Originally Posted by Mutt

The 'official' story according to the gospels is that Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect in charge of running the province of Judea, found Jesus innocent of the charges brought against him by the Jews. The angry mob of Jews kept shouting for the death penalty. Pilate then has an idea which might save Jesus, he gives the Jews a choice, he will either set a serial rapist/murderer named Barbaras free or Jesus, hoping the Jews won't want a murderer rapist out on the streets. The Jews want no part of the deal, they get more unruly and louder, Jesus must die. Pilate fears this is going to turn into a riot and it's his job to keep order. To signify that he shall bear no responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus he washes his hands before the crowd. Jesus is sentenced to death, only under threat of insurrection by the Jews.

The gospels were written in the first century AD, by Jews, so it wasn't the Church hundreds of years later throwing the Jews under the bus.

Jews today would just say that they don't believe any of this happened at all, but of course will stick to their belief that 1000 years before Jesus God held an in person meeting with Moses where he gave Moses, The Law.