Had the Jewish authorities been directly involved, Jesus would have been stoned, as Stephen was in Acts 7. Josephus the Jewish historian recounts many examples in his Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities. Romans killed Jesus as a political threat, as they had killed many other prophets, brigands, rebels during the first century. We all know the end-term of this lamentable history.” By the Middle Ages, the epithet ‘Christ-killers’ became the verbal club to justify the ghettoization, persecution, and murder of Jews. “In Luke, the “whitewash” of the Romans becomes nearly complete. “Matthew, probably because of intra-Jewish rivalry, puts the ultimate blame squarely on the shoulders of the Jewish authorities,” Flinn said. Gospels written much later, such as those of Matthew and Luke, reflect different interests and viewpoints, and each places more and more blame on the Jews. He notes that our earliest accounts of the crucifixion, such as the Gospel of Mark written circa 60-70 C.E., make clear that it was Pilate who had Christ crucified. “Only Roman authorities could authorize crucifixions and they often did so on a gruesome, massive scale.”įlinn, an expert on Catholicism, said Gibson’s movie seems to merge all of the gospel stories about the Passion into one epic, a made-for-the-big screen story that fails to show how opinions about the Jews’ role in the crucifixion have changed dramatically over time. “Had the Jewish authorities been directly involved, Jesus would have been stoned, as Stephen was in Acts 7,” Flinn said. Louis, the Jews had nothing to do with killing Jesus - the Romans are actually to blame.
Flinn, Ph.D., professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Many say the movie has anti-Semitic overtones. The soon to be released Mel Gibson movie “The Passion of The Christ” is creating quite a stir among religious experts, as well as lay people.
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