Who Killed Jesus?

From Creation magazine produced by Creation Ministries International, June-August 2009 edition in response to the statement in an article, “The King of Israel is destroyed by an Israelite hand.”

“Every man is guilty of sending the King of Israel to His death. Have the Jews not suffered enough as a consequence of the epithet of ‘Christ killers’ being hurled at them by Christians?”

From the response by the article’s author, Dr Jonathan Sarfati, himself a Jew:

...there are no grounds for anti-Semitism in the New Testament, and it would be absurd to single out the Jews as Christ-killers.

According to the Bible, these are the ones responsible for Jesus’ death:

•    The Jews: you (Jewish audience), with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross (Acts 2:23).

•    The Gentiles: He will be handed over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him, spit on him, flog him, and kill him (Luke 18:32).

•    Our sins: Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:3).

•    The whole world’s sin: He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2).

•    Jesus Himself!: I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself (John 10:17-18).

•    God the Father!: For God so loved the world. That he gave his only begotten son (John 3:16).   

And of course Satan was involved as well (Genesis 3:15)

So no one has any grounds for persecuting Jews (or anyone else) over their role in Jesus’ death.