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2.Gospel accounts of his crucifixion are the inspiration for Mel Gibson's new film, "The Passion of the Christ."For some there is no controversy, the gospels are literal truth.We're not exploring the mysteries of faith, but the mysteries of history, to piece together the last days and moments of Jesus' life.The evidence is scarce, with different and sometimes contradictory books of the Christian gospel and a few lines penned by ancient historians.One of the lovely things about the gospel stories of Jesus' entry to Jerusalem for his last Passover is the tradition of the triumphal entry.Jesus is danced into the city by pilgrims that are singing about the coming kingdom of God.He's smarter than the scribes.EvansDateline NBCCraig Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College, Nova Scotia, Canada.He is the author or editor of more than 30 books on the New Testament and its Jewish backgrounds.Evans has a specialty in the Dead Sea Scrolls.He believes the scrolls shore up the viewpoint that the Bible is accurate, because they show there is continuity between the Bible of today and the Bible of Jesus's time.Publisher: Westminster Knox Press, Baylor University PressJesus was a Jewish preacher from a small town in rural Galilee, an area some say was known for its political activism.And for at least a year, the gospels say, he'd been traveling the countryside, reaching out to the common people, including the outcasts, the unpopular and downtrodden of his time.How big was his following?Well, we don't know for sure.Certainly hundreds at any given time in his ministry and public activities.And I think he meant by that, there would be big changes in Israel, and eventually big changes throughout the world.How provocative was that message?There were other kingdoms.So there's a political dimension to what he's talking about.Borg holds the Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University.For those who gathered to hear Jesus speak that week it would have been a message of hope, a promise of liberation from sickness, poverty and oppression.But scholars agree that not everyone who heard Jesus preach would have been pleased about the changes he pledged or the devotion he inspired.And as Jesus entered Jerusalem along this valley in the east, another man was arriving from the west.At the time, the Jewish people were living under the yoke of the Roman Empire, a vast imperial territory that stretched from what is now Scotland to Saudi Arabia.Pilate was the Roman prefect, or governor, appointed to collect taxes and maintain order in the remote outpost of Judea.His job depended upon his keeping peace in that province.So any kind of popular movement that seemed to threaten the peacefulness and stability of Judea would've been seen by Pilate as a threat.What kind of mood would Pilate have been in on an occasion like this?And scholars trying to piece together what happened that week say that Pilate's mood was sure to get even worse when word came back that a Jewish preacher was in the city stirring up crowds with promises about any Kingdom of God.The Kingdom of God is picking the one term that will make the Romans listen.They considered themselves the Kingdom of God.He has written 20 books on the historical Jesus in the last 30 years, four of which have become national religious bestsellers: The Historical Jesus (1991), Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994), Who Killed Jesus (1995), and The Birth of Christianity (1998).After 20 years in a Roman Catholic religious order, Crossan left to teach and get married.Jesus Seminar, a group that has tried to prove the truthfulness of parts of the Bible.This collection of academics votes with beads (red for "yes," pink for "probably reliable," grey for "possible but unreliable," and black for "improbable") on whether Jesus said or did something.To speak of the Kingdom of God, and to speak of what God wants for the world, is not meek and mild.Inside the Temple, scholars believe that another powerful man would have been keeping watch, as well.He was the most powerful man in Jerusalem and scholars agree the person whom Pilate would have held responsible if anything went wrong that Passover.He's planning on being the high priest for many more years to come.And if he can't control what is happening in Jerusalem, then there's a good chance the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, is going to remove him from office.And scholars say anyone entering the city with the kind of fanfare Jesus attracted was sure to capture Caiaphas' attention.So he sends out his emissaries to ask questions, to do reconnaissance, and also to find out what kind of following does he have?What am I dealing with here?And as Jesus made his way to the Temple in the heart of Jerusalem, the countdown to his death four days later had begun.People preparing for the Passover.Purchasing lambs, getting ready for the Passover sacrifice.It's a holiday, which means that there is mostly unstructured time.So, there's a concentrated effort to keep sanitation, food, water, crowd circulation, everything, as quiet as possible.Eve in Times Square for two and a half weeks without modern sanitation.She is author of Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews (1999), a historical study of the last twelve hours of Jesus' life, as well as From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus (1988).While many New Testament scholars are theologians, ministers, or priests, Paula Fredriksen is none of the above.As an expert in both Judaism and early Christianity, Fredriksen thinks that the Gospels are not history, but were essentially advertisements for various competing Jewish sects in the first century.Vatican II Catholic, convert to Orthodox Judaism.The festival commemorated the Jews liberation from slavery in Egypt, and now the people were subjects of another imperial power, Rome.Joseph Caiaphas, the Temple's High Priest, would have also had good reason to be on alert.Passover riot in Jerusalem 30 years earlier had left as many as 3,000 Jews dead in a Roman slaughter.Fredriksen: If any kind of turmoil breaks out internally in the country, the high priest loses his job and the prefect loses his job.But the high priest has an added incentive to keep things peaceful that the Roman prefect doesn't.The people he's trying to keep peaceful are his own people.Passover was zero toleration time for anything that could disturb the peace.Piecing together precisely what Jesus did that week is, of course, impossible.First Century historians wrote only a few lines about Jesus.Crossan: It's not that anyone is telling a lie.They are writing gospel.Others, like Dominic Crossan and Paula Fredricksen, view the gospel accounts more skeptically.What are Jesus scholars to do?Can we rely on these sources?Does the story make sense?That brings us back to Passover, where as Roman soldiers and temple police stood guard, the gospels say Jesus entered the Temple and began to preach.Jesus is in and out of the Temple precincts daily, teaching.Biography: Nicholas Thomas WrightDateline NBCNicholas Thomas Wright is the Bishop of Durham, England.He is one of the most important voices within orthodox evangelical Christian thought, known for his conservative views and traditional approach to the Bible.He has said that "authentic Christianity has nothing to fear from history."Such criticism was not unusual in that day and it may have touched a nerve with many of Jesus' followers.And you either cooperate with the change and benefit from it, or you stand in the way and get trampled.On Sunday or Monday, three of the gospels say Jesus came to the outer court of the Temple, where stalls would have been bustling with merchants.And it was here, the gospels say, that Jesus did something that was sure to draw attention.He stormed into the court, overturned the tables, and cast the vendors out.We can imagine the coins scattering and bouncing all down the little cobbles in this very hilly, stony, small city of Jerusalem.What he does is what somebody might do during the Vietnam War if they went into a draft office and poured, say, blood on the files.It doesn't stop the war.It doesn't even destroy the draft office.It's a symbolic gesture.Temple is going to be destroyed by God, because you're not practicing justice.For the Jewish leaders, those would have been provocative words, and for a Roman like Pilate, against the law.If you make a threat against a Temple in the Roman Empire, that is a serious offense.You're subject to immediate arrest.And they want to shut him up.Like a contagion, it may spread.And pretty soon there could be a riot or a revolt.Caiaphas wants to minimize Jewish bloodshed.So on Wednesday, two days before the crucifixion, as Jesus continued to preach, some scholars believe a decision was made to bring him in.It is described as an evening of torment, where Jesus foresaw his own death.The only sources for what happened that night are the gospels but after the outbursts at the Temple, Jesus would have had good reason to believe he was in danger.When his mentor John the Baptist caused a stir in Galilee, where Jesus grew up, he'd been seized and executed.If I were in Jesus' line of work, John's execution would have made me nervous, too.He knows it can happen to him.And then the arresting people know, oh this is Jesus.And that was very important because these men who were sent to arrest Jesus, for all we know, had never seen him before.That's what the betrayal is all about and that's what made it so significant.It's a powerful story and I think it's a powerful piece of fiction.It's also possible, It's possible that Judas was a real character.How can you decide that?Sorting out what happened in that trial and another one that followed, is enormously difficult.In the books of Matthew and Mark, Jesus was tried by Caiaphas and a prestigious council of priests and elders, called the Sanhedrin.Witnesses were interrogated and a verdict rendered.Given that it's Passover, it's a lot like the Supreme Court meeting twice between nightfall and morning of Christmas.So that kind of trial seems highly unlikely to you, historically?And it's also inconsistent in the gospel traditions.Do they want to hand him over the Romans and if so, with what recommendation?Perhaps Jesus needs a good beating and be sent out of town.There are lots of options.Caiaphas is what from some people's point of view would be called a collaborator.If he doesn't he'll be fired and somebody else will take his place.Maybe he's got some ideas we don't agree with, but why are we persecuting him?You have to convince us Caiaphas, that this man is a threat.And how does he do that?But even that version of events has skeptics.For Jesus, it had been a long night of interrogation and imprisonment, and as dawn broke the gospels say that he was bound, led through the streets of Jerusalem and brought before Pontius Pilate.Caesar and you are simply a little worm that has been brought before me.This is not a problem for him.From a Jewish point of view, the crime is threatening the Temple and the Temple establishment.But when you add to that Jesus' authority for making these threats, namely he's the lord's anointed, and that's where we get the word messiah, that means he's claiming to be the king of the Jews.Like Caiaphas, Pilate would have been eager to crush any hint of rebellion, and the gospels report that he interrogated Jesus, asking if he was "King of the Jews.What happened next is one of the most dramatic and debated scenes of the Bible.And so we get into this should it be Jesus of Nazareth or should it be Barabbas.He gets water and a bowl and washes his hands as a way of saying, I'm quit of this, this was your doing, you've put me on the spot and I'm only a civil servant just doing my job.Pilate might well have done.Throughout the scene, Pilate appears weak and the crowd, out for blood.Jesus is popular enough to have been celebrated by pilgrims and danced into the city.He was so popular that he had to be arrested by ambush.And yet by morning, there's a hostile crowd screaming for his death.And that's where you have to sort through.And something else about the scene that doesn't square for some scholars is the notion that Pilate would be swayed by the whims of any crowd.That is absolutely unhistorical.The last thing he would have done is have some kind of open court with people saying, is this okay?"Would Pilate have done it to please the priests?Pilate is appointed by the Emperor.As Pilate sentenced Jesus to death, the gospels say that Roman soldiers beat and scourged him, a brutal form of torture where the skin is whipped with leather straps studded with nails and bone.It was designed to weaken the person, to cause the person to bleed, to put the person in terrible agony.It may sound like a barbaric and rare form of punishment, but scholars say that scourging and crucifixion were tools of terror wielded on tens of thousands of people all across the Roman Empire.The aim was to bring about not only suffering, but humiliation, to send a message.If you act like this person does, you will die this public, horrible death.That was terrifying and horrifying in the Roman world.And that's very clear in the sources.It's Rome's way of saying this is something you don't even want to think about.And people would know what this meant.They're taking him off and they're going to kill him.In paintings of the crucifixion, Jesus usually bears his own cross, but archeologists say it's more likely that he carried only its horizontal beam.Anything more would have been too heavy, especially for a man who had been beaten and scourged.He would be just really tired.So according to the records, he stumbles a couple of times.Today, Christians come to a street in Jerusalem, to trace the steps that many pilgrims believe Jesus walked as he carried that hundred pound beam through the steep, winding streets of the city.There is some debate on the path, but scholars are united on one thing: that every step of the journey would be agony.And it would soon become much worse...Jesus arrived at Golgotha, or place of the skulls.Open to birds, open to vermin, open to rats, open to dogs.According to one gospel, Jesus' mother, Mary, and his disciple, Mary Magdalene, stood at the foot of the cross, watching the horror unfold.After six hours, Jesus most likely succumbed to extreme shock or suffocation.Jesus' death on the cross, and the belief that he was resurrected three days later, gave birth to a religion that has raised and toppled nations, and transformed lives.Today the world's Christian population is some two billion strong, and many flock to worship beneath the symbol of what happened that day in Jerusalem.Over the centuries the gospel images of Caiaphas, Pilate, and the crowd crying out for crucifixion have fueled a notion in some quarters that the Jewish people were responsible for Jesus' death.Semitic persecution and violence for almost 2,000 years.If everything in the New Testament was literally correct, there is no reason whatsoever to blame anyone beyond the people who were right there.Where did this notion come from?Three of the authors were almost certainly Jewish themselves.Instead, scholars see them as a byproduct of the times.The gospels were written decades after the crucifixion, when the earliest Christians were trying to break away from Judaism and shield their budding religion from the watchful eye of Rome.In 1965, the Vatican issued a decree absolving the Jewish people of blame in Jesus' death.So in the end, what does it all mean?What's the bottom line for you?How do you answer the question, who killed Jesus?But the Romans killed Jesus in consultation with the Jewish authorities.And it's a very small number.There is no question about that.He's telling the pilgrim crowd that is so enthused about Jesus, you're wrong he's not the messiah.In the end, Jesus scholars are united in the belief that crucifixion was a Roman, not Jewish, form of execution.And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared."That was written 60 years after the crucifixion.What really happened to Stacy Peterson?Most popular Dateline pages this week1.Who's who: Student murdered in Italy3.Who killed Stacy Peterson?The real story behind 'Alpha Dog'7.What happened to Stacy Peterson?The mission of Jesus, according to Islam, is in two phases.The first was as a prophet to Israel, the second will be at his second coming when he, as a follower of Muhammad, will fight Dajjal (the anti Christ), and help Muslims to change the world into an Islamic abode.In his first phase, during the third year of his mission, Jesus was strongly opposed and harassed by the Jews.Out of their disappointment, hatred and enmity towards Jesus, they finally accused him of rebellion against the emperor, whose officers gave orders for his arrest and eventual crucifixion.Muslim commentators believe that the Jews failed in their treacherous plot, that the Roman soldiers arrested a person who had a striking resemblance to Jesus, while Jesus himself was lifted alive to Heaven.Commentators, such as Baidhawi, Tabari, Razi and Zamakhshari express similar opinions that God raised Jesus into heaven, a substitute being killed whom God had made to look like Jesus.Some Muslims do not believe in the substitution theory.In his book, 'City of Wrong', Qaryah Zalimah, Dr.No cultured Muslim believes in this nowadays.Jesus was crucified but did not die.He asserted that Jesus was taken away by friends, his wounds treated and later, he travelled to India where he died at the age of 120.Azhar university did not believe in the bodily ascension of Jesus, his being alive in heaven and his descent therefrom in the latter days (Ali Akbar, Israel and the prophecies of the Holy Qur'an, page 127).Similar opinions have been presented by others like Muhammad Asad and Muhammad Abduh (ibid.Such interpretations have led some to wonder whether it is essential to have a clear belief about what happened to Jesus.In spite of such ideas, Christians uphold the belief that Jesus was crucified, as prophesied by him and by other prophets before him, that he also died and rose from the dead.And I hold the keys of death and Hades.The Qur'an has just one verse which may be ambiguously quoted to deny the crucifixion, but about one third of the Christian Gospels refer to this event.Christians are often asked: 'Why did Jesus go through all this?Before Abraham was born, I am!Related topics:
Who Is Jesus Christ?IT IS the seventh day of the Jewish month Nisan in the year 33 C.For three and a half years, he has been speaking about God's Kingdom.He has cured the sick and fed the hungry.But the religious leaders are chafing under Jesus' burning denunciation of them and are desperate to have him killed.Yet, there he is, walking purposefully up the parched road in front of his disciples.As the sun dips behind the Mount of Olives up ahead, Jesus and his companions reach the village of Bethany, where they will spend the next six nights.After the Sabbath, Jerusalem is abuzz with activity.But the noisy commotion we hear is more than usual for this time of the year.As they shove their way out of the congested gates, what a sight greets them!Many jubilant people are making their way down the Mount of Olives on the road from Bethphage.People spread garments out on the road ahead of him.How vexed they are to see the marvelous things Jesus does and the jubilation of the crowds!Teacher, rebuke your disciples.If these remained silent, the stones would cry out.Before departing, Jesus notes the commercial activities in the temple.Yesterday, he could not help but be incensed at the gross commercialization of the worship of his Father, Jehovah God.The chief priests, the scribes, and the principal men cannot stand Jesus' actions and public teaching.It is early in the morning, and Jesus and his disciples are already on their way over the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem.Fresh on their minds is his action against the money changers and the traders in the temple.By what authority do you do these things?And who gave you this authority?If you tell it to me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things: The baptism by John, from what source was it?If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why, then, did you not believe him?If, though, we say, 'From men,' we have the crowd to fear, for they all hold John as a prophet.Matthew 21:12, 13) To pay the temple tax, Jews and proselytes from other lands had to exchange their foreign money for acceptable currency.Beginning on Adar 25, they moved into the temple area in Jerusalem to capitalize on the tremendous influx of Jews and proselytes.Dealers ran a thriving business, charging a fee for every piece of money exchanged.Some could not bring their own sacrificial animals.Bazaars of the sons of Annas.Revenue from the money changers and from the sale of animals within the temple grounds was one of their main sources of income.Whose image and inscription is this?Listen as he fearlessly denounces the scribes and the Pharisees.Boldly, he pronounces a series of woes on them, identifying them as blind guides and hypocrites.Later, he sees people drop money into the temple treasury chests.Jesus is now leaving the temple for the last time.Well, a little later Jesus and his apostles sit and enjoy the peace and quiet of the Mount of Olives.When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?Matthew 24:7, 14, 21; Luke 21:10, 11.This has been an unforgettable day for Jesus and his apostles.Since it is getting late, they start walking back the short distance over the hill to Bethany.Jesus spends Nisan 12 quietly with his disciples.He realizes that the religious leaders desperately want to kill him, and he does not want them to hinder his Passover celebration the following evening.Early in the afternoon, Jesus sends Peter and John to prepare the Passover for them in an upper room in Jerusalem.Luke 22:8) A little before sundown, Jesus and the other ten apostles meet them there for their last Passover celebration.In a large furnished room, Jesus and the 12 are reclining at a prepared table.Luke 22:14, 15) After a while the apostles are surprised to see Jesus get up and put his outer garments to one side.Taking a towel and a basin of water, he begins washing their feet.The apostles are highly grieved at this.What you are doing get done more quickly.Once Judas has left, Jesus introduces a meal to commemorate his impending death.Keep doing this in remembrance of me.After saying a blessing, he passes the cup to them, telling them to drink out of it.This means my 'blood of the covenant,' which is to be poured out in behalf of many for forgiveness of sins.During that momentous evening, Jesus teaches his faithful apostles many valuable lessons, and among these the importance of brotherly love.It will bring back to their minds all the things he has told them.John 14:26) Later in the evening, they must be very encouraged to hear Jesus say a fervent prayer in their behalf.Luke 22:44) The very thought of the reproach that would be heaped on his dear heavenly Father if he failed is agonizing to the extreme.Judas, kissing Jesus tenderly.All of a sudden, Peter slashes out with his sword and cuts off an ear of the high priest's slave.All those who take the sword will perish by the sword.Jesus is arrested and bound.In fear and confusion, the apostles abandon their Master and flee.Jesus is led away to Annas, the former high priest.Next, Caiaphas has him taken to Roman governor Pontius Pilate.He sends Jesus to Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee.Jesus' innocence is confirmed by Pilate.After considerable verbal and physical abuse, Jesus is taken out to Golgotha where he is mercilessly nailed to a torture stake and suffers an agonizing death.In time, more than 500 people were able to verify that Jesus was again alive.They are of vital importance to us in that we can have our sins forgiven on the basis of Jesus' sacrifice and can thus have a personal relationship with Jehovah God.Even mankind's dead are affected.If you want to know more about such matters, we invite you to attend the Memorial of Christ's death on April 2, 2007, at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in your area.Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.Rock than the last MCD, which was more produced for the Clubs.Alternative guitars and many electronical sounds. |
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