Please read the passage before reading the comments.
Who killed Jesus? Certainly not the Jewish people of Antioch in Pisidia, to whom Paul was speaking. Certainly not the Jewish people expelled from Spain in 1492. Certainly not the Jewish people in Germany in the 1930s and 40s. The inhabitants of Jerusalem of Jesus’ day were implicated for having failed to recognize him, but they had asked Pilate to put him to death.
Why even mention it or ask the question? Why do we want to know? We have only one valid reason for asking the question. We ask so as to publish the great mercy of God who raised Jesus from the dead for our redemption. We do not ask so that we can blame people for the death of Jesus, but we do ask to invite people to repent of their sins.
God had long ago promised to make us God’s children, members of God’s household. God brought this promise to fulfilment by raising Jesus from the dead. In other words, Jesus had to die for the promises to be fulfilled, since God has raised Jesus from the dead in order to fulfill the prophets. This what the Scripture passage means when it says, “You are my Son, this day I have begotten you.”
Today is always the “this day of being begotten”. Today is always the day the Lord God chooses to embrace us into God’s family as the beloved Child whom God has begotten. Once God has chosen, God never repents. Every time we celebrate the sacred mysteries of the Lord, our membership in God’s life and family are renewed, and we should know that has established even more firmly than the last time we celebrated them.
The question is not., “Who killed Jesus”. But why did God raise Jesus from the dead?
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