Why did the Jews want Jesus dead so badly?

in bible •  4 years ago 

""Look, the world has gone after him" (John 12:19), so the Jews sought to kill Jesus throughout His earthly ministry and were constantly trying to trip Him up so that others would stop following Him. Really, they wanted Him dead, because the more that followed Him, the fewer that followed them, and so their motive was purely selfish. The Jews came up with false witnesses, they held an illegal trial at night with several of the members of the court missing, and they were the ones who handed Jesus over to the Romans to have Him crucified"
https://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/who-killed-jesus/

"After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him"
https://biblehub.com/kjv/john/7.htm

"16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day."
https://biblehub.com/kjv/john/5.htm

"18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God."
https://biblehub.com/kjv/john/5.htm

"31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God."
https://biblehub.com/kjv/john/10.htm

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