The Problem That Jesus Is Destroying Is Not Bad Jewish Politics

If we try to simplify this whole thing down to one root cause of why jesus got killed, that thing that we come up with is in some way political or ethnic or conspiratorial. At this point, i does no't think we're reading the story properly. The problem that jesus is defeating here is not bad jewish politics. And he's doing that by playing the pivoal role in god's redemptive plan. As we read through the text, there is the spirit of the age. There's a disease that wrecks us. There’s a temptation that we can’t resist. But as we get to the end of matthew