This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we examine the question of who brought about Jesus' execution, acknowledging the different characters that play and the role they each had.

Yeah, now you said we were in last podcast and you did an awful lot of reading. Like you had you had some reading today. Yeah, last episode was the Brent Billings episode. This episode is the Marty Solomon episode. I give it to you.

Well, you mentioned that you noticed in the midst of all of that reading, which it wasn't in the midst, it was actually at the very beginning. You noticed a little hint.

Well, at the beginning of chapter 27, oh chapter 27, okay, it is right and smack dab in the mouth early in the morning. The center of the chasm perhaps. Probably not. Probably not. I'm not prepared for that information.

Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed. So is the chief priests and the elders who did it? Well, okay, done. Next episode.

It's been great to have you with us today. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at the morning. Solomon. Okay. So we have. Yeah, the conversation about who killed Jesus is actually a really electric topic. You don't dive into this hastily.

I mean, there's so much anti-Semitism like behind the whole who killed Jesus thing, handling this question can be a ticking time bomb. Nevertheless, it's interesting to make some very basic observations about what gets Jesus into so much trouble.

Without a doubt, I'm not going to be letting Rome off the hook here. Like Rome's going to play a part. We'll get to that by the end of this episode. They literally killed him. Yeah, like, well, yeah, physically carried it out. That is correct. Absolutely.

Which they had to in their day, they did not allow any other people group to do capital punishment. That was against Roman law. So once the, you know, once the crowd that is responsible for Jesus's death decides to have him executed, they can only turn to one place. There's only one people that people group they can do that. And that's the Romans.

Couldn't they stow them? I'm not in Jerusalem. I wouldn't want to. I mean, Steven is stoned. You know, that's a really good question.

That is a good question, Brent Billings. Because I suppose the answer to that is yes. And yet they very, very intentionally. They don't just want him dead. They want him, they want him dead in a particular way.

They are demanding crucifixion because crucifixion, if you remember from last episode, Brent, what was that reserved for? Well, you said zealots, right? Yeah. And in like more our language today, we would say what terrorists, terrorists, like it was a, it wasn't just capital punishment. It was a form of capital punishment.

Designed to just torture you literally to death. It was the worst torture that they could possibly come up with. And they use it to torture insurgents terrorists zealots. And so the group of people that are having Jesus killed definitely want him killed us a particular way to send a message to people that are watching.

So I'm not going to be letting Rome off the hook. I want to deal with that later.

So the other two people on the cross next to him were probably zealots. Well, the word is zealots. We translate it robbers and these, but the word is used throughout extra biblical literature to talk about zealots.

So the two robbers sitting next to Jesus are zealots without a doubt. And listen, the only people hanging on cross are zealots. Like if you see somebody hanging on a cross, you know that they're an insurgent. You know that they're terrorists. You know that they're a zealot, which is what they're saying as they hang on the cross. This guy's not a zealot.

And so many people thought Jesus was a zealot. So these two are on the cross making fun of them because at the moment they had a chance to do something. He just absolutely.

Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, absolutely so much context. So good. Yeah. So there's no. And then the other one like realizes the air of his zealot.

Yeah, it's always ways and absolutely. I've messed up. And he like, absolutely. Yeah, so good. He totally gets it. Like he's been confronted with two different agendas as he hangs in his final moments.

And he's like, I get it. I know which one, which story wins here because the story about into my whole life doesn't win. Yeah, absolutely.

So there's no question that Rome plays a part in the crucifixion of Jesus. They have to the Jewish leadership does not have the judicial authority to execute prisoners by crucifixion.

So at the very least, Rome, Rome authorizes the death of Jesus. But as you pointed out, they do even more than that. They actually carry it out.

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