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Why
was Jesus sentenced to death and crucified? Link
to share: https://hanglberger-manfred.de/karfreitag-why-was-jesus-crucified.htm |
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Jesus was accused of violating the laws of God, therefore to be a
"sinner" and a "blasphemous". |
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Because he has touched a man with a contagious sickness, which was strictly forbidden. (Mk 1.40-45) |
Jesus
felt compassion for the sick. Compassion
and willingness to help were more important to him than to observe the laws. |
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Because
he forgave sins (Mark 2: 5) and the scholars said, He is a
blasphemous, because only God can forgive sins through the priesthood. |
Jesus
shows that every human being is able to and should help others to recover
from their guilt problems. He calls on every human being to forgive and to be
merciful. |
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Because
he healed a man on the Sabbath. The Sabbath was the Sunday of the Jews. Working on the Sabbath was strictly forbidden. (Mark 3,1-6) |
Jesus
says, "The Sabbath exists for man, not man for the Sabbath." (Mark
2,27) The
religious laws should promote the compassion and the willingness of the
people to help - not prevent! |
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Because he wanted to go to the house of "heathen" or "nonbelievers". (Mark 7,24)
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Jesus
also looked at "heathen" and believers in other faiths as humans
and as "children of God" and did not despise them and did not
regard their habitat as "unclean". |
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Because Jesus proclaimed a different notion of God and another notion of His
work in the world, he was regarded as a religious heretic teacher. |
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Because he represents God as a loving Father, who accepts difficult and sinful people mercifully, not as a punishing ruler, who is primarily concerned with the observance of laws. (Lk 15,11ff) |
The image of God in the parable of the "merciful Father" is an "anti-story" to the paradise narrative, in which God punishes the disobedient human beings in many ways and drives them out of paradise. (Gen 3) |
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Because
Jesus, in many parables, depicts God as absent, so that men may learn
to become independent and responsible stewards of the earth - not servants
of God! |
The
father of the house or the king is gone: (Mt 25:14) He has
surrendered the household, or the "talents", to men: God is
inwardly close to man, does not rule from the outside. |
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God (=
the authority) serves man, so that they may become spiritually grown up. Jesus,
with his declaration of God, prevents the usual making people afraid,
intimidation, and violence against the faithful in the name of God on the
part of the authorities. |
God as
"Father": Parents serve the children so that they may grow up. He protects the adulteress from stoning and protects the woman at the Jacob’s well from the contempt of her fellow men. (John 7: 3ff, Joh 4: 1ff) |
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The
"kingdom of God" does not come in the future through an abrupt,
violent intervention of God and is not prepared by the violence of the
faithful. |
The
Kingdom of God - is
already "in you" and "in the midst of you" (Luke 17:21) - is
already in the breaking (Mark 1,15) - it
comes like the growth of seeds and like the sour dough, which acidifies the
flour (Luke 13:20-21) |
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Jesus: "The last shall be the first." (Lk 13,30) |
Who
despises the "heathen" is worse than them! |
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Parable
of the wedding meal (Luke 14: 14-24) |
The
invited people have not appeared, now the people are invited from everywhere. |
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Jesus
also helps heathens (through cures) (Mk 7) |
Healing
experienced meant: being loved by God |
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He
introduces a heretic (Samaritan) as a model for a God-pleasing behavior. (Lk
15) |
He who
does good shows that God works in him - even if he is not "officially
believing"! |
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There are
people who say no to God, but rather fulfill the will of God than many believers. |
See the
"Parable of the Two Brethren" (Mt 21: 28-31) |
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To belong
to the "people chosen by God" does not mean to put one self
internally above the others, but to be the tool of God for justice and peace
for all peoples. |
This is
why Jesus helps pagan people, recognizing within them a belief that he does
not always find with the Jews: the Roman leader (Matt. 8:10) and the
Syro-Phenician woman. |
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Because he seduces the people to disobey the laws. He was
a seducer of the people because he educated the ordinary people for critical
thinking. |
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Because
Jesus taught the people through parables, so that they could independently
decide on moral and religious questions, also to assess the validity and
meaningfulness of existing laws. |
The high priest
said, "The people who understand nothing of the law - cursed is it"
(John 7:49) When
Jesus educates the simple people to independent and critical thinking, he
turns the people against them in the eyes of the authorities. |
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Because
he understood the role and the task of the leaders anew and criticized the
authority exercised by the religious leaders and national leaders of that
time as incapacitating and unhelpful. |
"Do
not be called masters, father, or teachers" (Mt 23: 9) "They
are blind guides" (Mt 15:14, 23:24) "They
have taken the key to the world of God!" In Jesus,
the authorities must lead people to more maturity and self-responsibility. |
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Jesus
respects the laws, but teaches to recognize their meaning and to fulfill it. He
teaches to keep laws, deliberately and responsibly but not compulsively. He
teaches to live more directly with awakened senses and with a critical
mind than to study only the Holy Scriptures. |
Jesus
defends the picking of the ears of corn of His disciples on the Sabbath. (Mk
2,23-28) "If
your righteousness is not greater than that of the scribes ..." (Mt
5,20) The words
"obedience" and "obeying" are never seen in the mouth of
Jesus as moral demands for men - but he tells many parables and words that
call for independent judgment and loving responsibility! |
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Because he vehemently criticized the ruthlessness and narrow-mindedness of
the leaders of religion, priests and scribes, thereby destroying their
prestige and authority. |
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Jesus' accusation:
They have no sense for the current life of the people: they do not recognize
what people suffer and what helps them. They
narrow their lives by means of laws and regulations unnecessarily, instead of
helping them solve their problems. They are based
on outdated laws and beliefs and do not live in the present. They want
to punish people who have done something wrong, instead of helping them. |
"They
are like whitewashed graves." (Mt 23:27) "They
impose heavy burdens on men, instead of removing the obsolete burdens of
religion" (Mt 23,4): Religion
thus becomes a burden to their lives rather than a life-aid. In the
parable of the merciful Samaritan: the religious authorities overlook the
most important: The compassionate love in action! (Luke 10) |
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Why was
Jesus sentenced to death and crucified