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NASB | Matthew 27:25 And all the people said, "His blood shall be on us and on our children!" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 27:25 And all the people answered, "Let [the responsibility for] His blood be on us and on our children!" [Josh 2:19] |
Subject: MYTH: Jews invoked a curse on themselves |
Bible Note: And all the people said, "His blood shall be on us and on our children!" Matthew 27:25 NASB 'This verse has been used to justify persecution of Jews through the centuries by Christians who presumed that the Jewish people had invoked a curse on themselves and on their posterity, and willingly accepted responsibility for "deicide" (the act of killing a divine being). But a mob cannot speak in an official capacity for anyone, let alone for a people. Nor, in the light of Ezekiel 18,* can anyone invoke a curse on unborn generations. Moreover, even were the curse effectual, Yeshua (Jesus) prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34). 'Besides, if the Jews were the only ones who killed him, then he didn't die for anyone else. But he died for all, not just for Jews: the righteous Messiah (Christ) died for everyone who is unrighteous, which is to say, for everyone. Everyone, Jew and Gentile alike, is a sinner. By sinning, everyone, Jew and Gentile alike, killed him. Therefore everyone, Jew and Gentile alike, is guilty of Yeshua's death. See John 3:16; Romans 3:23, 5:7-8; 1 John 2:1' (Jewish New Testament Commentary, David H. Stern, Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc., 1992). ____________________ *Ezekiel 18 The soul that sins, it [is the one that] shall die. The son shall not bear and be punished for the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear and be punished for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him only, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon the wicked only. Ezekiel 18:20 AMPLIFIED |
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