Were the Romans justified in taking Jesus as a rebel?
>>588999
Who knows.
We don't have any decent historical sources detailing what happened.
>>589010
How do I do that?
>>589015
Pick one of the four texts, find the passage, determine how the Romans approached the Jesus character. Take a theological position, make an argument regarding justification, invite counter positions and disputation.
Yes. He was a political figure and his politics were being against the establishment.
>>588999
I would recommend this book if you're interested in the subject.
http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Judaea-Hyam-Maccoby/dp/080086784X
>>588999
>rabble-rouser carpenter talking shit about being rich
>pontius pilate has a lot on his pontius plate
he made trouble and got put down
t. Caiaphas
>>588999
It wasn't so much that they took him in because he was a rebel, but he was inflaming tensions with establishment Jewish groups with his preaching and antics.
I mean, if a guy is going around the Temple of Solomon declaring everyone there is a terrible person, that's going to make a lot of people angry. Even if that guy dies on a cross for em later.
>>589115
Don't forget, that he's inflaming (or is perhaps symptomatic of) already existing tensions between the Pharisees and the Sadducees. And the trial before Ciaphas mentioned in the Gospels, if it has any validity at all, sounds a lot like a kangaroo court drummed up by a Sadducee inner circle rather than a proper meeting of the Sanhedrin; which is probably why they tried to palm off the actual execution to the Romans rather than doing it themselves.
>>589140
Oh yeah, the Romans were barely keeping the province together.
