Who really killed Jesus Christ?

Technically, the Roman Soldiers carried out the order from Pontius Pilate who had the authority to either let him go or to have him crucified. Pontius Pilate found no fault in Jesus but he was weak and yielded to the desires of the Jewish leaders who wanted Jesus out of their way.

However, in reality, Jesus allowed himself to be slain. He had power to lay down his life and power to take it up again. He chided his disciples when he said, know ye not that I can command legions of angels to bear me up, but nevertheless, the Father's will be done and He fulfilled his assignment unto the children of men by allowing himself to be sacrificed. Christ even told Pilate that he, Pilate, could do nothing accept He allow it to happen.

Thus, Christ allowed himself to be killed to fulfill the sacrifice that was his assignment from the Father. In order for that to happen, many pieces had to come together. Judas betrayed him in the garden. The Jewish leaders wrongfully accused him of blasphemy and prevailed upon Pilate to have him put to death. Jesus then forgave those soldiers who carried out the order stating that they knew not what they did. I believe that Jesus generally holds the Jewish leaders responsible and they will have to pay the spiritual price of their failure to recognize their God.

Someone that never existed could not be killed! The bible is what is called "Faction" A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not! There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded! There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death! He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record? Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death! Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter! At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!

Good Question but in reality it was the Roman authority

That's right BIG GOVERNMENT

The jews most certainly demanded it as a heretic ...

Pilate WANTED nothing to do with it...but did to finally appease the people (true politician)

but it was Pilate just the same...

Everybody had a hand in the Crucifixion...that's the point...

whether it be the roman soldiers spear or a nameless faceless nobody in the crowd yelling CRUCIFY HIM...

Everybody did...

When I read that part of the Bible I thought, "wow doesn't God understand that Pontius Pilate didn't want to hurt Jesus? that he was being pressured?" I thought that Pontius Pilate shouldn't be punished it's hard for anyone in his situation. If he wasn't brainwashed to believe in Jesus as a kid that's not fair that he just be struck down or anything. He was on Jesus's side and if everyone's a sinner then why shouldn't he be forgiven?

Jesus lives!

Here is your answer:

Isaiah 53

New Living Translation (NLT)

1 Who has believed our message?

To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?

2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,

like a root in dry ground.

There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,

nothing to attract us to him.

3 He was despised and rejected—

a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.

We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.

He was despised, and we did not care.

4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;

it was our sorrows[a] that weighed him down.

And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,

a punishment for his own sins!

5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,

crushed for our sins.

He was beaten so we could be whole.

He was whipped so we could be healed.

6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.

We have left God’s paths to follow our own.

Yet the Lord laid on him

the sins of us all.

7 He was oppressed and treated harshly,

yet he never said a word.

He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.

And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,

he did not open his mouth.

8 Unjustly condemned,

he was led away.

No one cared that he died without descendants,

that his life was cut short in midstream.

But he was struck down

for the rebellion of my people.

9 He had done no wrong

and had never deceived anyone.

But he was buried like a criminal;

he was put in a rich man’s grave.

10 But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him

and cause him grief.

Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,

he will have many descendants.

He will enjoy a long life,

and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.

11 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish,

he will be satisfied.

And because of his experience,

my righteous servant will make it possible

for many to be counted righteous,

for he will bear all their sins.

12 I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier,

because he exposed himself to death.

He was counted among the rebels.

He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

Theological, according to major Christian leaders - God killed Jesus Christ.

Historically, according to the NT, MA. History, Rome killed Jesus of Nazareth.

The answer should be based on the Bible just as the question is based on it.

This is what we read:

• Cor 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; NOT OF THE LETTER, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

• 2 Co 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are SEEN ARE TEMPORAL; but the things which are NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL.

The Natural Man (1 Cor 2:14) would surely say it was Pontius Pilate, the authority who gave the sentence to kill HIM, and of course the soldiers who LITERALLY “killed Jesus Christ”.

But based on the Bible since the answer should not be based on the “LETTER” or literal word, but on the

“spiritual”; then the PEOPLE themselves are the ones, for that was the cause of HIS DEATH.

THEREFORE, in God’s wisdom it is this TRUTH that should convict the PEOPLE repent for their sins and be SAVED!

The higher quest-i-on is this:

should it be crucifixion or crucifiction?

Hint: Matthew 9:13 (from Hosea 6:6)

God will have mercy, not sacrifice,

is to allegory say

God will have crucifiction, not crucifixion.

Hint: Matthew 22:33-41

Kill the heir brings destruction, not salvation

Hint: 2Corinthians 5:14

The love (God) of Christ "constraineth" us

to thus judge that if one died for all, then

the result would be all dead, not all alive

Hint: Mark 15 ... Revelation

"crucify him" x3 brings "woe" x3

Hint: 1Thess 5:3 & James 1:15

when "it is finished" hits the God fan

then it's a deadly<--blow back to them

Hint: Luke 15 ... Revelation 1:7

If crucifiction, then it's "rejoice" with me.

If crucifixion, it's ww "wail" becuse of me.

Hint: of two mentions of "finished" in John

the human race is won by the one first finished

who gives no place at all to the second finished

It was planned from the beginning, God knew it would have to happen.

However, the actual event: The Jews put out the contract

Judas marked the hit

The Romans carried it out.

What is interesting, is that the Roman army was made up of conscripts from all over the Roman Empire, so essentially all mankind became guilty of the blood of the Messiah.