I have a question. In the Bible, the Jews wanted Jesus to be crucified. Today, is that one of the many reasons He is not the messiah due to how your ancestors saw him when he was alive? Did their harsh opinion of him have an influence in how the Jewish see Him today?
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See, this is only part of a major disconnect that is going on. I'll see what I can do to help.
And part of the problem is taking the Christian gospels as the truth about the life and times of Jesus. This is problematic, because this is practically the only source of the life and times of Jesus. But it's still a major problem.
Part of it is that, during the time that Jesus is supposed to have lived (and I'm not convinced that he did), it was during a time that the authority that the Sanhedrin had over life and death cases was shipped out to Yavneh, because Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai saw that the Temple was short on time, and asked the newly minted Emperor Vespatian to spare Yavneh and its sages, among the three things Vespatian granted him.
So... That is problem one.
Problem two - the whole "court case" against Jesus was supposed to happen ON PASSOVER, during the day. It goes against Torah law for court to meet, never mind the Sanhedrin, on Yom Tov. And if the story that was in the gospels was right, the whole business happened in the Court of Hewn Stone, which is part of the Temple. There is NO WAY that the Jews who were coming from all over the world to be in the Temple wouldn't have seen this, and would have let it go without comment. If the court case happened, kangaroo court though it sounds like it was, regular Jews would not let this continue.
Problem three - taking the "guilty verdict" to the Romans to have Jesus executed. No matter how important or impressive Jesus might have been to his particular followers, he WASN'T so important that Jews who really should have known better (and if they were scholars who were judges on the Sanhedrin, they should have known better) would have gone against another very important law, and that is informing non-Jews on Jews to get the Jews in trouble.
The more I pay attention the more I think of the Christian scriptures as REALLY bad Biblical fanfiction. The authors didn't really understand the ways and means of the Jews during the time of the Temple. The authors didn't really understand many of the laws, of the customs, or even how Jews operated on one of the more intense holidays in a Jewish year.
The authors knew enough to recognize that Rabbis were there. Priests were there. Scholars were there. Members of the Sanhedrin were there. But they were so into making Jesus into a saint and a martyr and a hero that they forgot how the other Jewish characters were supposed to act.
Unless Jews today specifically study the gospels in order to engage in polemics, most Jews don't really even know who Jesus IS.
The question isn't why historically Jews didn't like Jesus. The question is, historically, once Christianity came into existence, why people quoted a non-entity to us, and expected us to believe in a guy who was irrelevant during his lifetime (if he actually lived), and to decide that he is all that they say he is because they believe he is all that.
The better question is, why do Christians insist that Jesus is a useful character in Jewish history?
Jews know what to expect when the Messiah comes. Jesus didn't fill that position in any way, if he even existed.