The Easter is a celebration in which religions catholic and christian remember the last moments of Jesus Christ on Earth (the passion, death and resurrection) since he arrived in Jerusalem the Palm Sunday (When it starts) being proclaimed savior, until he is arrested, accused, sentenced, crucified; good Friday; and finally resurrected on Easter Sunday.
Surely many people have seen the representations made in some churches of the death and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, without fully understanding why he was sentenced to death in such a cruel way.
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Historians from National Geographic undertook the task of explaining several relevant aspects that led to the crucifixion of Jesus in Jerusalem.
Surely the Roman authorities and the priests of Jerusalem did not imagine the impact that the man they sentenced to death would have, since for them it was about giving an exemplary punishment to what they considered a subversive and dangerous character.
Why was he convicted?
National Geographic historians explain that it can be deduced that Jesus was condemned for crimes related to public disorder by the chosen execution method.
“The crucifixion was a punishment that was applied to slaves and criminals, including rebels and seditious, and only the Roman authorities -in this case, the prefect Pontius Pilate- had the power to execute it”, they explain, clarifying that although religion had to do with the death sentence, it was not the real reason for his crucifixion since for the false prophets the sentence was stoning and this was executed by the Jews themselves.
In this sense, they clarify that Jesus arrived in Jerusalem within the framework of one of the most important celebrations of the Hebrew calendar, the Jewish Passover, which commemorates the liberation from Egypt.
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For the authorities of the time, any alteration of public order at such an important moment should be immediately rooted out.
For the Jewish priests and, in particular, for the High Priest Caiaphas, Jesus represented a problem for two reasons: first for his criticism of certain behaviors of the priests, and secondly because it could trigger a riot.
In particular, the episode of the expulsion of the merchants from the temple would have been the trigger for the Sanhedrin, the council of rabbis with functions of judge, saw in Jesus a mass agitator and they considered pertinent to denounce it before the Roman authorities, who had the power in matters of public order.
