THE JEWS AND THE DEATH PENALTY IN JESUS' DAY??

MANY  HAVE  READ  JOHN  18: 31  WHERE  THE  JEWS  SAID  TO  PILATE  THAT  IT  WAS  NOT  LAWFUL  FOR  THEM  TO  PUT  ANY  MAN  TO  DEATH.

THEN  PEOPLE  READ  ABOUT  STEPHEN  BEING  STONED  TO  DEATH  BY  SOME  JEWS,  IN  THE  BOOK  OF  ACTS;  THEY  NOTICE  THAT  NO  ADVERSE  REPERCUSSIONS  CAME  ON  THEM  FOR  SO  DOING;  THE  ROMANS  OBVIOUSLY  TOOK  NO  NOTICE.

THEN  WE  HAVE  SOME  OF  THE  PHARISEES  BRINGING  BEFORE  JESUS  THE  WOMAN  TAKEN  IN  ADULTERY,  THE  VERY  ACT;  SAYING  TO  JESUS  THE  LAW  OF  MOSES  SAYS  SHE  COULD  BE  PUT  TO  DEATH.  AND  ASKED  WHAT  JESUS  THOUGHT.  JESUS  ANSWERED  BY  SAYING  "HE  THAT  HAS  NO  SIN  AMONG  YOU,  LET  HIM  CAST  THE  FIRST  STONE."

IT  WOULD  SEEM  FROM  THIS  ACCOUNT  ALSO,  THERE  WAS  NO  HAVING  TO  TAKE  THE  ROMANS  INTO  CONSIDERATION.

A  CONTRADICTION?

WELL  NO!  I  HAVE  PUT  A  STUDY  UP  CONCERNING  THIS  IDEA  THE  JEWS  COULD  NOT  PUT  ANY  MAN  TO  DEATH.

YOU  WILL  FIND  IT  UNDER  "MISCELLANEOUS"  ON  MY  WEBSITE.

OH  YES  TO  ANSWER  WHY  THE  JEWS  SAID  THIS  IN  JOHN  18:31,  SEE  THE  NEXT VERSE - 32.

IT  WAS  FORECAST  BY  JESUS  THEY  WOULD  SAY  THIS [AND  SAYING  SOMETHING  DOES  NOT  ALWAYS  MEAN  IT  IS  CORRECT  BY  THE  JEWS  LAW  OR  ROMAN  LAW].  THERE  WAS  A  VERY  GOOD  REASON  THE  JEWS  SPOKE  THIS  WAY,  FOR  JESUS  WAS  NOT  TO  DIE  BY  BEING  STONED  TO  DEATH,  BUT  BY  BEING  LIFTED  UP.  THE  MARGIN  OF  THE  KJV  TAKES  YOU  TO  MATTHEW  20:19  AND  JOHN  12: 32, 33.

SO  THE  JEWISH  LEADERS  WERE  ACTUALLY  FULFILLING  A  PROPHECY  BY  JESUS,  WHEN  HE  TOLD  HIS  DISCIPLES  HOW  HE  WAS  GOING  TO  DIE.

WELL  FOR  SOME  VERY  INTERESTING  FACTS  ON  THE  JEWISH  SANHEDRIN  AND DEATH  LAWS,  SEE  THAT  STUDY  UNDER  MISCELLANEOUS  ON  MY  WEBSITE.
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