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NASB | John 5:18 For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 5:18 This made the Jews more determined than ever to kill Him, for not only was He breaking the Sabbath [from their viewpoint], but He was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. |
Bible Question: why did the Jews want to kill Jesus? Jesus is jewish |
Bible Answer: Greetings, The jews who sought to kill Jesus didn't see him as the Messiah. 1) They saw him as a Sabbath breaker. In John 5:1-17, Jesus healed the man at the pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath day, and told the Man to carry his pallet away. The jews saw this as a direct violation of the mosaic laws on honoring the Sabbath. 2) They saw him as a blasphemer. Later in the same chapter, Jesus makes the claim of being the Son of God. In the Jewish belief system, Jesus's claim of being the Son of God, true or not, was blasphemous. That's why they tried to stone him nearly every time he tried to claim to be the Son of God. 3) They feared how influential he would become. John 11:48 talk about one of the final plots to kill Jesus, and one reasoning given is that they feared how the Romans would react to Jesus's growing influence and power. Jalek |
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