Why judaism rejected jesus

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See Account Overview. Your account has been created. Still other Jews expected the prophet Elijah, or the angel Michael, or Enoch, or any number of other figures to usher in the messianic age. Stories in the Gospels about Jesus healing the sick, raising the dead, and proclaiming the imminence of the kingdom of heaven suggest that his followers regarded him as appointed by God to bring about the messianic age.

Jews for Jesus is one branch of a wider movement called Messianic Jews. Members of this movement are not accepted as Jewish by the broader Jewish community, even though some adherents may have been born Jewish and their ritual life includes Jewish practices. Jesus was executed by the Romans. Crucifixion was a Roman form of execution, not a Jewish one. For most of Christian history, Jews were held responsible for the death of Jesus.

This is because the New Testament tends to place the blame specifically on the Temple leadership and more generally on Jewish people. This text paved the way for a historic rapprochement between Jews and Catholics.

Several Protestant denominations across the globe subsequently adopted similar statements. However, this thesis is not widely accepted by New Testament scholars.

Had Rome regarded Jesus as the leader of a band of revolutionaries, it would have rounded up his followers as well. Nor is there any evidence in the New Testament to suggest that Jesus and his followers were zealots interested in an armed rebellion against Rome.

More likely is the hypothesis that Romans viewed Jesus as a threat to the peace and killed him because he was gaining adherents who saw him as a messianic figure.