(February 19, 2023 at 6:12 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(February 19, 2023 at 5:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: How would the authorities, who didn’t know what Jesus looked like, have been able to arrest him without the services of a betrayer?
Right, they hired an informant in this situation, but notice that there was already a plot to kill Jesus. My claim is that this would have taken place by any means available, and betrayal wasn't necessary for it to occur.
He may have just been stoned in the street at the hand of the priests. I agree the story seems to require a sacrificial element (the lamb analogy), therefore suicide and senescence seem unlikely options.
It is unlikely in the extreme that the Sanhedrin would have stone Jesus in the street. For one thing, Jesus hadn’t committed any of the offenses under Mosaic Law that would merit death. For another, capital punishment was virtually non-existent for any offense in Jewish society of that period. For still another, it beggars belief to think that a majority of the rabbis would have voted to kill someone they considered mentally deranged.
Boru
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