Jews not responsible for Jesus’ death, says Pope
March 3rd, 2011 - 11:38 am ICT by ANILondon, Mar 2 (ANI): Pope Benedict XVI has clearly said that Jews are not responsible for the death of Jesus Christ.
In a forthcoming book, the Pope addressed one of the most controversial issues of Christianity by saying Jews bore no culpability.
He talks about the controversial text of St Matthew’s Gospel in which ‘the Jews’ demand the execution of Jesus and shout to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, “Let his blood be on us and on our children,” reports the Daily Mail.
But the Pope said when St Matthew wrote ‘the Jews’ he meant the mob in Pilate’s courtyard and not the Jewish people in general.
In fact, the crowd was representative of the whole of sinful humanity, he added.
It did not represent “a curse, but rather redemption, salvation”, the Pope said in Jesus of Nazareth - ‘Holy Week: From Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection’, which will be published next week.
Sister Margaret Shepherd, of the committee for Catholic-Jewish relations of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, said the Pope’s book “offers original insights into the death of Jesus and the question of responsibility for it.” (ANI)
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