WHY WAS JESUS CRUCIFIED?
In the Talmud it is stated that “according to tradition, they hung Jeshu the Nazarene on the Eve of Passover.
A crier went out forty days before saying, ‘Jeshu the Nazarene is going to be stoned because he has practiced magic and led Israel astray. If anyone can speak in his favor, let him come forth and declare himself.’
But they found no one to do so. And they hung him on the eve of Passover.” (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin, tractate 43 a.)
Were these MAGIC or MIRACLES?
Ever see a magician do these?
Or, are they the work of a kind and loving
Son of God?
Changing water into wine
Healing of the royal official’s son
Healing of the possessed man in Capernaum
Healing of Peter’s mother-in-law
Catching a large number of fish
Healing a leper
Healing a centurion’s servant
Healing a paralytic
Healing a withered hand
Raising a widow’s son
Calming the stormy sea
Healing the Gerasene demoniac
Healing a woman with internal bleeding
Raising Jairus’ daughter
Healing two blind men
Healing a mute demoniac
Healing a 38 year invalid
Feeding 5000 men and their families
Walking on water
Healing a demoniac girl
Healing a deaf man with a speech impediment
Feeding the 4000 men and their families
Healing a blind man
Healing a man born blind
Healing a demoniac boy
Catching a fish with a coin in its mouth
Healing a blind and mute demoniac
Healing a woman with an 18 year infirmity
Healing a man with dropsy
Healing 10 lepers
Raising of Lazarus
Healing Bartimaeus of blindness
Restoring a severed ear
Catching a great number of fish
Etc.
God the Son: The God known as Jehovah is the Son, Jesus Christ (Isa. 12: 2; 43: 11; 49: 26; 1 Cor. 10: 1-4; 1 Tim. 1: 1; Rev. 1: 8; 2 Ne. 22: 2). Jesus works under the direction of the Father and is in complete harmony with him. All mankind are his brothers and sisters, for he is the eldest of the spirit children of Elohim. Some scripture references refer to him by the word God. For example, the scripture says that “God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1: 1), but it was actually Jesus who was the Creator under the direction of God the Father (John 1: 1-3, 10, 14; Heb. 1: 1-2).
The Lord identified himself as I AM, Ex. 3: 13-16. I am the Lord [Jehovah], and beside me there is no savior, Isa. 43: 11 (Isa. 45: 23). I am the light of the world, John 8: 12. Before Abraham was, I am, John 8: 58. The Lord shall minister among men in a tabernacle of clay, Mosiah 3: 5-10. Abinadi explained how Christ is the Father and the Son, Mosiah 15: 1-4 (Ether 3: 14). The Lord appeared to the brother of Jared, Ether 3. Listen to the words of Christ your Lord and your God,Moro. 8: 8. Jehovah is the judge of the quick and the dead, Moro. 10: 34. Jesus appeared to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon, D&C 76: 20, 23. The Lord Jehovah appeared in the Kirtland Temple, D&C 110: 1-4. Jehovah spoke to Abraham, Abr. 1: 16-19. Jesus appeared to Joseph Smith, JS-H 1: 17.
We are all children of God. Jesus came to earth as a perfect person, the only begotten son of God, to take upon himself the debt of our sins so that He can help us pay our debt for our sins so that we may live again, be resurrected, and be able to return to our God once again.
It took a God, even the Son of God to accomplish this.
We are all so deeply indebted to Him. We must become like him. Jesus is The Way.