If Jesus was tried as a criminal for heresy?

The general view of Christianity is that the execution of Jesus was a martyrdom, or sacrifice. It was to stand as the repayment (redemption) of the alleged sins of humankind.

It does not really qualify as murder, in that according to the Gospel accounts, the execution was conducted lawfully. (Murder is unlawful killing.) The account of the Gospels does hold it was a religious killing.

As for the performance of miracles (such as why he did not simply spirit himself away from the Romans), there would not be much of a sacrifice if he did that.

It wasn't "another religion" that crucified Jesus. Jesus was crucified by the Romans for political reasons; and certain Jews wanted Jesus crucified because they felt that He was speaking blasphemously and because He was a threat to high priests who's ways he challenged for not being God's ways. Jesus did not perform miracles to save Himself because it would not have fulfilled God's plan. In the Old Testament, in the book of Isaiah, chapter 7, verse 14, the Prophet Isaiah prophecied about the future, "therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son. And she will call His name, Immanuel" Immanuel means-God is with us.

At the time He was being crucified, Jesus uttered the words, "Father, why hast thou forsaken me?" God had to allow Jesus to humanly feel the pain of taking on our pains, and thus His ability so "save" Himself through His own deity was nullified so to speak. The bottom line is, it was all part of God's plan.....

In the New Testament, this prophecy is fulfilled in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that whoever believes will in Him, have eternal life". In the book of Matthew, chapter 1, verse 21 we see the prophesy more directly supported, "She will bear a Son; and you shall call HIs name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins". It was God's purpose that Jesus die on the cross so those that have place their faith in Him, may have a way to Him. Jesus, on our behalf, shouldered our sins so that we as believers can spend eternity with God in His Heavenly Home.

Jesus getting executed wasn't part of the plan. After it happened anyway, his followers had to retroactively come up with some excuse that would explain it. Notice how there are those who think Jesus is God himself, others who see him as the son of God, and others who consider him a prophet. It's all because of scapegoating.

He was tried for heresy but they failed to implicate him. Proof? He was not stoned to death! This would have been the standard Jewish punishment for heresy. Instead, he was crucified, the standard Roman mode of execution for rebellion.

And the purpose for Jesus' performing of miracles was, in his words, "to give glory to God."It was not done to impress, neither to save oneself. Jesus willingly accepted death because it was "God's perfect sacrifice for the redemption of mankind."

If one truly wants to understand Jesus and his redemptive death let him read the bible with an open mind. Reading scriptures merely to find fault in it is counter-productive and will only lead to blind spots that in turn would result in catastrophic error for the malicious reader.

It's true that Jesus paid the ultimate price for his heresy..but ....it wasn't until much later when a new religion was being fabricated that miracles were attributed to the new 'god'.

He was not a heretic, he was prosecuted and judged by heretics that feared Him.

He was charged with claiming to be equal with God. For any human to do that would, indeed, be heresy! But if it was true - if Jesus was actually God incarnate - then it could not be heresy, but the most awesome thing ever to happen in human history - God adding human nature to His divine nature in order to identify with us sinners to deliver us from slavery to sin.

From the Jewish point of view, it was clearly heresy as they did not believe the promised Messiah would be fully divine as well as fully human. They only expected a human who would triumph over their political enemies and restore the throne of David and the kingdom to Israel. Yet Jesus said His Kingdom was not of this world, and He made no political moves to usurp Rome. So His enemies fabricated the latter charge in order to get Rome to put Him to death. They knew Rome had no interest in religious charges, so they got Pilate to condemn Jesus on the grounds of claiming to be King of the Jews - which, to Rome, was treason. To the Jews, it was heresy for Jesus was not just claiming to be King, but the Son of God - equal with God. Hence the double charge.

The gospel accounts explain all of that, and the first one was written about 20 years after Jesus resurrection, with nearly all of the 500 eye-witnesses to that still alive.

Now, your second issue - why did Jesus not perform miracles during his trial and punishment? That is because Jesus knew His mission was to die without having sinned, so that He could be the only perfect, once-for-all-time sacrifice for sin. To do that would be to accomplish victory over sin, death and the devil - then repentant sinners could be set free from slavery to sin. There was no other way. Once you grasp the Old Testament theology about sin, it is clear. All the OT sacrifices pointed to the Messiah who would fulfill them, in His person. Leviticus ch. 16 describes the annual Day of Atonement - the sin offering to cleanse the covenant people of God from their sin; also Exodus 30:10 shows that the altar had [quote] annual atonement made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. [unquote]

Genesis ch 22 prefigures God sacrificing His beloved Son (Abraham being asked to sacrifice his miracle child of promise, then God stopping him and providing a ram instead.)

Leviticus 14:24 speaks of the lamb for the guilt offering, to cleanse from uncleanness, its blood sprinkled after it is killed. Jesus is called [quote] The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world [unquote John 1:29].

The book of Hebrews, from 7:22 to 10:25, applies this all to Jesus, explaining why he was led like a lamb to the slaughter and did not answer his enemies. Jesus had full deity but never used His divine powers to benefit Himself. He had to stick to doing the will of God, and that was to give His life so that others could live; to bear our punishment in His body, that we be spared punishment; to be forsaken by God as He became sin, so that we could be reconciled to God; to pay back to God the debt of our sin that we could never repay.

The cross of Christ is the power of God unto salvation! The world cannot see it that way because the world is sunk in sin and only judges by outward appearances. Yet because Jesus submitted to humiliation, ridicule and excruciating pain, culminating in an awful death - without having sinned - He triumphed over all that oppresses us. He had to be equal with God to do that. No mere man could accomplish that! That is why the Son of God left the glory He had with the Father in the Godhead, in Heaven, and added human nature to His divine nature, via Mary. He had to come incognito, so that the enemy could not preempt the perfect timing of God and scupper the plan of salvation. Satan must have thought he had succeeded in snuffing out the light of the world on Calvary's eerily darkened hill that afternoon. Ah, but he fell right into the trap set, and because Jesus is the Son of God, death could not hold Him and He arose in triumph from the grave! That is why Jesus endured false accusations - because He actually is God incarnate - and He knew that His triumphant resurrection would prove it. See Romans 1:1-6. AiH