Death Of Jesus Research Paper

What happened way before Jesus was put to death and what happened just before he was put to death, tie very closely into why he was killed. Like every other person who ever lived and died on this Earth, Jesus had a past, a family, and a birth place. The story of Jesus’ birth, according to the Bible, is quite humbling and is a bit like this: There was a young girl who lived in Nazareth named Mary. It never says her actual age in the Bible, but girls could get betrothed, which was like getting engaged but the father picks the man and they have to act like they're already married, as young as 12 back then, so it is estimated that she would have been around 12-16 at the time. She was betrothed to a carpenter named Joseph. One day a messenger …show more content…
The answer to this that states that Jesus was killed because he was usurping the governmental powers of Rome is the most probably answer since in John 18:3,12 offers the information that a Roman cohort (a military unit) was present during Jesus’s arrest. Though, also in the book of John, Jesus, when asked by Pilate, says that he is not a king of this world but another (Heaven) and therefore stating that he was no threat to Rome. Also in the gospel of Luke, when tested by the high priests about paying taxes to Rome, Jesus states, ‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.’ The events that lead up to Jesus’s death are very well know just like the events of Jesus’s birth, and they go like something close to this. When Jesus and the disciples approached Jerusalem, where they would stay for the Passover Feast, Jesus sent two of them to fetch a donkey’s colt from a village near by. When they returned with the colt, Jesus rode on it into Jerusalem, where people laid their jackets and leafy branches onto the ground to make a path for him and shouted, ‘Hosanna!’ as he passed. While this was happening, the priests were plotting Jesus’s death. Later, Judas Iscariot went to them and said that he would turn