The Crucifixion’s
Facts & Myth
Jesus Christ’s Word
To understand exactly what happened during the crucifixion event, we need to study the events that led to it, and what Jesus Christ taught and told about it, starting with Jesus’ word and the source of his words and knowledge.
Did Jesus teach his own knowledge and views on future events, or was he taught this knowledge and these future prophesies by God, then was commanded to teach them to the people, as he heard them?
ST. JOHN 7, VERSES 16 – 19.
“16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. 19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?“
The word of Jesus is not false.
Jesus did not teach his own knowledge, but the knowledge of God who sent him. If anyone determines to do the will of God, he will be able to know if Jesus was falsely teaching his own knowledge without being sent by God, or, if he was truthfully teaching the knowledge of God who sent him. The one, that falsely speaks his own ideas without being sent by God, seeks his own glory. But the one that seeks the glory of God; and not his own, is truthful.
The word of Jesus Christ is truthful.
ST. JOHN 8, VERSES 39 & 40
“39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.”
Jesus did not speak his own knowledge falsely, but the truth, which he had heard from God, the one who sent him. What God told Jesus, Jesus told to the people.
ST. JOHN 5, VERSE 30
“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”
ST. JOHN 8, VERSE 50
“And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.”
ST. MATHEW 6, VERSES 9 – 13
“9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
ST. MATHEW 26, VERSE 39
“And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”
Jesus Christ couldn’t do anything of his own volition. Only when he heard the words from God, he passed them on; he did not seek his own will, but the will of God who sent him; Jesus sought not his own glory, but the glory of God who sent him.
Jesus Christ is truthful, but the Jews refused to accept and believe in. They do not do the will of God, and they do not keep God’s law, which was given to them previously by Moses. Their sins blinded them from seeing that Jesus is the Christ sent to them from God with the truth, and so they wanted to kill him.
But for the Jews to kill the truthful Christ by crucifying him, they needed to arrest him first. Being unable to arrest him; crucifying him, would therefore be impossible.
Were the Jews able to arrest Jesus Christ? And did they?
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