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1 Thess 2
14 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

Acts 2:
…. they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance…Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth… ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay…God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified. Acts 2:4,22,23,36

Acts 3:
…Peter… answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel… his Servant Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him… ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you, and killed the Prince of life… whereof we are witnesses. Acts 3:12-15

Acts 4:
…Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders… be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified… Acts 4:8,10

Acts 5:
… they set them before the council…. ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man`s blood upon us…. Peter and the apostles answered and said… The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree… we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit Acts 5:27,28,29,30,32

Acts 6 & 7:
…there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue called the synagogue of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen. And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake….Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers; Acts 6:9,10; Acts 7:51,52

Acts 10:
…we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom also they slew, hanging him on a tree…. Him God raised up the third day, and gave him to be made manifest, not to all the people, but unto witnesses that were chosen before of God, even to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. And he charged us to preach unto the people, and to testify that this is he who is ordained of God to be the Judge of the living and the dead. Acts 10: 39-42

Acts 13:
…Paul stood up, and beckoning with the hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, hearken…they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead: and he was seen for many days of them that came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses unto the people. Acts 13:16,27-31

 

Let us consider Acts of the Apostles 5:30:
Act 5:30 NET
The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.
Act 5:30 NASB
“The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging Him on wood.
Act 5:30 NKJV
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.

The word translated as "murdered" and "killed" and "put to death" is "diacheirizō" (G1315) which actually means "to lay hands on" (with the objective of to do harm). In Acts of the Apostles 26:21 the idea is Jews were trying to kill Paul.

 

Lets

Do you believe you are presenting against the person arguments non-stop?

 

Acts 2:24, which says Jesus was in the "birth pains" of death. This pain and suffering were brought on by wicked people and Satan. No question, they were trying to kill Him, and their unjustified actions were murderous. But it was impossible for Him to be held in "death's power."

Acts of the Apostles 3:15
but put to death the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of whom we are witnesses.

Here we see the crux of the matter, people took actions against Christ's body that would kill a person, and were intended to kill Jesus. But no one took His life.

 

You seem unable to grasp reality, as you are posting as if I denied wicked people and Satan did to Jesus what would have taken the life of anyone other than our "God incarnate."

 

Scripture defines physical death as the separation of the spirit from the body (James 2:26). Neither wicked men nor Satan nor any other created entities could or did do anything that brought about that separation. Jesus voluntarily died when He commended and gave up His spirit into His Father's hands:

Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

Regardless of whatever any of the other passages say, none of them changes this truth about the actual time and reason for the death of Jesus.

 

I never claimed “Satan had nothing to do” with Christ’s death. Satan influenced Judas to betray Jesus. Certainly the Jewish leaders actions, though not directly controlled by Satan, reflected Satan’s hatred for God.

JonC gave a very accurate summary on the scripture related to this issue.

The statement “Satan murdered Jesus”, besides being factually inaccurate, gives an impression of Jesus being under Satan’s authority, being weaker than Satan. It denies the self sacrifice of Christ and makes our Lord a helpless victim.

That is why I reject the statement “Satan murdered Jesus”.

peace to you

 

Every time you make these types of comparisons you diminish the self sacrafice of our Lord Jesus.

No human being has the ability to give their Spirit into the hands of God at any moment. Jesus had the authority and ability to give His Spirit into the hands of the Father at any moment He chose.

When His work on the cross was finished, He decided to place His Spirit into the hands of the Father.

It was NOT that He knew He was about to die when He said the prayer, it was that He was about to give His Spirit into the hands of the Father so His body would die.

peace to you

 

This is not at all comparable to what happened with the death of Christ. Christ did not pray to God to take His Spirit. Christ actually delivered His spirit to the Father--no mere human being has ever been able or will be able to do what Christ died.

No created being took Christ's spirit from Him--not wicked men nor Satan.

 

I did not deny anything in my post that the Bible actually teaches is true; my post shows that the actual cause of Jesus' death was His voluntarily delivering His spirit into the hands of the Father. No human being(s) or Satan had anything to do with His doing so.