John 10: Who Caused Christ to Die?

[Third Hour]

I was in an informal conversation about current world events with several people, some of whom were of Jewish ancestry. Tragically, recent years have seen an increase in terrorist acts targeting Jewish people and their synagogues. One person in our group mentioned the centuries-old excuse some people have given for persecuting the Jews – that “they killed the Christian Messiah.” Dictators and despots from the late Roman era to Hitler justified persecuting and killing Jews at least in part on that completely false claim. Satan has promulgated that lie, and the deaths of untold millions of innocent Jewish men, women, and children has been the result. A shallow reading of the New Testament may bring people to assume that Caiaphas the High Priest and members of the Sanhedrin were culpable. Pontius Pilate relented to their demands and, after washing his hands symbolically, nevertheless gave the order to crucify. Roman soldiers carried out the crucifixion. But that small snapshot of history does not even come close to giving the true picture of...

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