Tuesday, February 17, 2004
(10:07 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Who Killed Jesus?
Due to that stupid Mel Gibson movie, everyone's asking this question. My answer is simple. It wasn't the Jews. It certainly isn't "everyone in the world who ever sins." The people who killed Jesus are the Roman soldiers who nailed him to the cross, propped it up, and left him hanging there. My argument in favor of this answer is that they did things that directly and inevitably led to his death. A major advantage of my argument is that the one element of Jesus' biography that is almost unanimously regarded as a historical fact is his crucifixion, and so we don't have to worry about parsing out the historically unreliable gospels.
Can we call a "case closed" on this one now?
