Why did the crowds call for Jesus to be crucified?

by cameo-d 9 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  cameo-d

  It seems that in the folklore, it's the evil politicians and the evil priests who get the blame for the crucifixion. In actuality, TPTB put the choice before the masses of people. It was the people who really decided. It was a conscious choice of the masses that Jesus be put to death.

  I don't recall any bible stories that spoke of how the masses hated Jesus. The only stories we hear about "the crowds" are how they followed him to hear his words, and the miracles of how he fed them all with 2 loaves of bread. Are there any bible stories that relate how Jesus was hated by the majority of people? Is there any explanation as to why great crowds turned on him in the end?
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  aquagirl

  Its all Bulls$#$t.They made it up as they wrote it.Written to suit their needs.
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  OUTLAW

  There wasn`t any FootBall in the Old Days..

  

  So they Crucified People on Sundays..

  

  ........................... ...OUTLAW
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  Ding

  Just a few thoughts...

  Mark 15:11 says: "But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead."

  This seems to indicate that they had people planted in the crowd to agitate for Barabbas to be released.

  Why would the crowd go along with this?

  It's not hard to stir up a crowd to demand almost anything.

  When the crowd cired "Hosanna" to Christ as king, many expected him to proclaim himself king and overthrow the Romans but he didn't meet those expectations.

  Barabbas was an insurrectionist against Rome. As such, he was popular with many Jews, and his release would have caused Pilate great embarrassment.

  Jesus was expendable.
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  cameo-d

  btt
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  notverylikely

  Barabbas was an insurrectionist against Rome.

  Huh? Where did that come from?
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  Ding

  Luke 23:19: "(Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)"
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  lesabre

  wiki barabbas.... interesting....
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  cameo-d

  lesabre: "barabbas.... interesting...."

  According to early Greek texts, Barabbas' full name was Jesus Barabbas. [8] Later texts shorten his name to just Barabbas.

  Abba has been found as a personal name in a First Century burial at Giv'at ja-Mivtar, andAbba also appears as a personal name frequently in the Gemara section of the Talmud, dating from AD 200–400 [9] . These findings support "Barabbas" being used to indicate the son of a person named Abba or Abbas.

  Abba means "father" in Aramaic, and appears both translated and untranslated in the Gospels. A translation of Bar-Abbas would be son of the father. Jesus often referred to God as "father", and Jesus' use of the Aramaic word Abba survives untranslated in Mark 14:36 (in most English translations). This has led some authors (named below) to speculate that "bar-Abbâ" could actually be a reference to Jesus himself as "son of the father".

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barabbas

  strange and intriguing.....
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  cameo-d

  Was it all a case of mistaken identity?

  Hyam Maccoby and some other scholars have asserted thatJesus was known as "bar-Abba", because of his custom of addressing God as 'Abba' in prayer, and referring to God as Abba in his preaching. [10] It follows that when the Jewish crowd clamored before Pontius Pilate to "free Bar Abba" they could have meant Jesus.