DR Thanks for reminding me of Barabbas but I strongly disagree that it was necessary to crucify Jesus, he could have lived a long, normal life continuing to produce miracles and christanity would have come sooner? It was a terrible act of the Jews who were there. However I am not a believer of the whole thing and apparently you are? Like Jews for Jesus? Comrade B In a message dated 4/13/2013 9:31:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, n1ea@xxxxxxxx writes: The anti-Semitism was that of individuals and not any part of the Church. If you accept that a small crowd of people when given the choice of a murderer and thief or Jesus to release - the custom was right after Passover one prisoner was to be released. Pilate thought that he could gain the freedom of Jesus by putting one of the worst criminals against him, sort of like who do you want to be released from prison, RR or Hitler? Of course, everyone would get our friend and comrade RR out of prison and leave Hitler to rot or be executed (better). Pilate thought it was 100% sure that the crowd would say "Let Jesus free" - he didn't anticipate that the hand picked (by the temple priests) crowd would want Jesus killed. It should go without saying, that these people that said "Crucify him" did the most wonderful thing that has ever been done. I repeat those Jews who cried out "Crucify him!" should be a special place in Heaven and thanked for what they did for evermore! That's why anti-semitism is wrong when based on this. The Jews did the best thing in the world. They're all mensches for doing this! Because without this being done, the Gates of Heaven would be still closed. Thank you supporters of the Temple Priests for freeing Barabbas and crucifying Jesus. Of course, the most respected Temple Priest and former Chief Rabbi had a young man he raised as his own child, a child from Tarsus who spoke Greek and learned Hebrew under the best teacher of the Torah. That adopted son at first persecuted the followers of "The Way" who he thought were heretics, he was present when they stoned Stephen to death. That man was Saul who was renamed by the Lord to be Paul. 73 DR On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:07 PM, <_Sblumen123@aol.com_ (mailto:Sblumen123@xxxxxxx) > wrote: J J Miller Of the countrys listed only Israel would welcome Jews. A good question, why was Jesus crucified except that Jewish crowd there told Pontius Pilat who washed his hands of the act, let his blood be on our heads and our children's head, the beginning of anti semitisim. Of course todays Chrisitian leaders say that we Jewa weren't there and are not responsible. However we have guys like RR who accuse Jewish money lending bankers of controlling and ruinning countries as an absolute fact. Interesting to note that Rome is the headquarters of the very large Catholic population when it was their soldiers that did the crucifying a most horrible way to execute including whipping. Comrade B, the Jew In a message dated 4/13/2013 9:38:35 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, _seaspark@ptd.net_ (mailto:seaspark@xxxxxxx) writes: It must be said, "Lots of stuff on here I never heard before". "Jesus was executed for blasphemy". Someone actually quoted from the notorious,"Elders of Zion". Reminds me of the long ago trivia question; "What was Jesus , Catholic or Protestant" ? If you were stranded in the Middle East with no money or passport, which country would you prefer to be in, Egypt, Jordan, S.Arabnia, Oman, Syria,Lebanon or maybe Israel ? Just wondering J J Miller