113. What were the accusations by which Jesus was condemned to death?

Some of the leaders of Israel accused Jesus of acting against the law, the temple in Jerusalem, and in particular against faith in the one God because he proclaimed himself to be the Son of God. For this reason they handed him over to Pilate so that he might condemn him to death.


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574. From the beginning of Jesus' public ministry, certain Pharisees and partisans of Herod together with priests and scribes agreed together to destroy him.317Because of certain acts of his expelling demons, forgiving sins, healing on the sabbath day, his novel interpretation of the precepts of the Law regarding purity, and his familiarity with tax collectors and public sinners318--some ill-intentioned persons suspected Jesus of demonic possession.319He is accused of blasphemy and false prophecy, religious crimes which the Law punished with death by stoning.320

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575. Many of Jesus' deeds and words constituted a "sign of contradiction",321but more so for the religious authorities in Jerusalem, whom the Gospel according to John often calls simply "the Jews",322than for the ordinary People of God.323To be sure, Christ's relations with the Pharisees were not exclusively polemical. Some Pharisees warn him of the danger he was courting;324Jesus praises some of them, like the scribe of Mark 12:34, and dines several times at their homes.325Jesus endorses some of the teachings imparted by this religious elite of God's people: the resurrection of the dead,326certain forms of piety (almsgiving, fasting and prayer),327The custom of addressing God as Father, and the centrality of the commandment to love God and neighbour.328

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576. In the eyes of many in Israel, Jesus seems to be acting against essential institutions of the Chosen People: - submission to the whole of the Law in its written commandments and, for the Pharisees, in the interpretation of oral tradition; - the centrality of the Temple at Jerusalem as the holy place where God's presence dwells in a special way; - faith in the one God whose glory no man can share.


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