Why did the Jews kill Jesus?
Answer Dear Jonathan, Thank you for writing and enabling me to answer in a public fashion. The Jewish People couldn’t execute Jesus as they lacked the self-government authority for capital punishment. Secondly, crucifixion is a Roman punishment, forbidden to Judaism and Jewish law even IF they had been permitted to execute for a capital offense. Crucifixion was the Roman punishment for the crime of treason or rejection of Roman sovereignty as is demonstrated throughout recorded history. The new edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica includes the following: CRUCIFIXION, mode of execution by fastening the condemned to two crossed beams. Being the form of death to which *Jesus of Nazareth was sentenced by the Roman governor Pontius Pilate between 27 and 36 C.E., crucifixion subsequently acquired momentous historical, theological, and legal significance, providing subject matter for research and discussion until the present day. Its origins cannot be traced with precision; it is thought to ha
