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Feb 17, 2022 · Though some would recognize and accept Jesus as Messiah (Luke 19:38; Matthew 16:16), many in Israel would reject their king once again. Ironically, most references to Jesus as the “King of the Jews” in the gospels come from non-Jews.
Jesus, crowned with thorns in a Tyrian purple robe as the King of the Jews, being mocked and beaten during his Passion, depicted by van Baburen, 1623. In the New Testament, Jesus is referred to as the King of the Jews, both at the beginning of his life and at the end.
12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna![a]”. “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”[b] “Blessed is the king of Israel!”.
Maimonides, in his Mishneh Torah, describes Jesus as the failed messiah foreseen by the prophet Daniel. Rather than redeeming Israel, Maimonides writes, Jesus caused Jews to be killed and exiled, changed the Torah and led the world to worship a false God.
Dec 19, 2017 · Herod died in 4 BC (cf. Matt. 2:19), probably from intestinal cancer. As a final act of vengeance against his contemptuous subjects, he rounded up leading Jews and commanded that at his death they should be executed.
The Divine Identity of Jesus as the Reason for Israel’s Unbelief in John 12:36–43. jonathan lett. Jel9@st-andrews.ac.uk St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JU, UK. This essay explores the ways in which attention to the Servant Song (Isa 52:13– 53:12) evoked by Isa 53:1 can illumine a reading of John 12:36 ...
Jesus came as the Messiah, or Anointed One, in all three offices: prophet, priest, and king. When was Jesus anointed to His calling? In fact, there is evidence of three anointings of Jesus: once in the premortal existence, and twice during His mortal ministry.
