Ali Ataie – Why Would the Romans Kll Jesus
AI: Summary ©
Speaker 1 discusses the use of the Romans as an instrument for gangly Jewish people, and how Maimonides uses it to express pride in his death. They also speculate on why the GOPs only mention the Romans, as it wasn't popular at the time.
AI: Transcript ©
Why would the Romans really care about a
rebel with only 12 followers? The New Testament
is very clear. The New Testament
basically paints the Romans as just the instrument
kind of just being used by this kind
of bloodthirsty Jewish crowd,
and then Maimonides,
when he speaks of Esau,
he's very proud to take credit for his
death, he doesn't even actually mention the Romans.
Why do the Gospels mention the Romans?
Maybe the gospel authors wanted to sort of
aggrandize the Jesus movement because it wasn't very
big apparently
and sort of,
depicted as being
very popular, some something that was, very consequential
for its time. It's also pretty much known
that he only had 12 followers. So