Perhaps There Is Another Explanation

In this world, in this life, there is always more than one side to a story; more than one explanation; one than one possibility. Just about everything you can imagine has, at least, an opposite. For instance, hot-cold, fast-slow, good-evil, and so on. So it is with religion.

Anyone who has read the Christian Old Testament and/or the New Testament knows that the Pontius Pilate washed his hands and told the Jews that he saw no reason for Jesus to be crucified. However, the Jews were not satisfied with Pilate's decision to not crucify Jesus. They screamed for the crucifixion of Jesus. Why? Why did the Jews want Jesus crucified?

Well, I am not a scholar, but the way I understand it, Jesus was upsetting the status quo among the Jews. The Rabbis at that time were very powerful. They were also somewhat corrupt. The common Jew did not have access to the Torah. Markets were doing business inside the temples and on the temple steps. Jesus became very angry and chased the merchants out of a temple and the market.

Much of what Jesus was preaching was in conflict with what the Rabbis were teaching. Jesus was, again, upsetting the way things were, and that was upsetting the powers that be among the Jewish population.

It was the Rabbis who paid Judas to betray Jesus. It was the Jews who cried out for Pilate to crucify Jesus. And so it was done. The Son of God, the Messiah was killed.

The Jewish people of the world are still waiting for the arrival of the Messiah. They refuse to admit that the Messiah has already been here and left. The Jews refuse to admit it was the Jews who had Jesus killed. If they were to admit that Jesus was the Messiah, they would also have to admit it was the Jews that had God's son killed. Imagine. The Jews--supposedly God's chosen people, a people more special than any other group of people in history [according to them], and then they see to it that the Messiah is killed. Perhaps that might have really ticked off God, what do you think?

Could it be that all the persecution the Jews have suffered over the centuries has been because God is pretty angry with the Jews for killing his son? Could it be the Jews will NEVER admit Jesus was the Messiah?

I offer this only as a possibility for speculation, not as an explanation. It is worth considering. After all, there is more than one way to look at things.