Jewish to play Mary - Mary Magdalene (2018) Discussion

No they did not. The Romans did.

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The op is a hateful anti-semitic republican !

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Technically, yes and no. Pilate did try, convict and sentence Jesus, but the custom at Passover was for him to release one person who had been condemned to death, that person selected by the acclaim of the crowd. Jesus was one who could have been released but the crowd, described in the Gospels of the Bible as the Jews and the multitude, cried out "give us Barabas" instead.

"According to all four canonical gospels there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed or required Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim, and the "crowd" (ochlos), "the Jews" and "the multitude" in some sources, were offered a choice of whether to have either Barabbas or Jesus released from Roman custody. According to the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and the account in John, the crowd chose Barabbas to be released and Jesus of Nazareth to be crucified. Pilate is portrayed as reluctantly yielding to the insistence of the crowd. A passage found only in the Gospel of Matthew has the crowd saying (of Jesus), "Let his blood be upon us and upon our children."[5]

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[–] chipbolton-76904 7 years ago

Technically, yes and no. Pilate did try, convict and sentence Jesus, but the custom at Passover was for him to release one person who had been condemned to death, that person selected by the acclaim of the crowd. Jesus was one who could have been released but the crowd, described in the Gospels of the Bible as the Jews and the multitude, cried out "give us Barabas" instead.

"According to all four canonical gospels there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed or required Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim, and the "crowd" (ochlos), "the Jews" and "the multitude" in some sources, were offered a choice of whether to have either Barabbas or Jesus released from Roman custody. According to the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and the account in John, the crowd chose Barabbas to be released and Jesus of Nazareth to be crucified. Pilate is portrayed as reluctantly yielding to the insistence of the crowd. A passage found only in the Gospel of Matthew has the crowd saying (of Jesus), "Let his blood be upon us and upon our children."

In more recent years, the Catholic Church has reversed its long tradition of calling Jews " the killers of Christ ".

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[–] manfromatlan-63369 7 years ago

Er, Jesus and Mary of Magdala were Jews.

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[–] bastasch8647 7 years ago

1. "The" Jews did not kill Jesus. SOME Jews in the priesthood colluded with Roman authority to kill Jesus. The Gospels are clear that the Jews as a whole don't bear guilt for Jesus' execution. Even the so-called anti-Semitic Gospel of John says, "Salvation is from the Jews" and has Jesus say of one of his Jewish disciples, "Behold, a true Israelite, in whom there is no guile!"

2. It is extremely odd that the OP complains about a completely appropriate casting of a Jew in the Jewish role of Mary, BUT makes not mention of the inappropriate and really stupid and culturally ugly casting of a Nigerian as the Jewish disciple Peter! An example of cultural mis-appropiation by non-Whites against Whites, just as stupid as done in films about White history that get inaccurately staffed by historically-incorrect non-Whites. What sheer idiocy.

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