Why did people want to kill Jesus?

The people’s plan was to get rid of Jesus, but God’s plan was for Jesus to die for believing sinners.

While Jesus lived on earth, His miracles and teaching proved that He was God’s Son sent to seek and save lost sinners. But not all sinners believe in Jesus. Some people during Jesus’ time hated Him!

These people wanted to kill Jesus because they refused to turn from their sins and refused to believe that Jesus was God’s Son sent to save believing sinners (John 3:19; John 8:24).

Why did God let these people hurt Jesus? Actually, Jesus dying on the cross was God’s plan! God let the people crucify Jesus because He planned for Jesus to die, taking the punishment for sin—death. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, God said in His Word, the Bible, that His Son would suffer and die to pay the punishment that sinners deserve. Read about God’s perfect plan in the Bible Truth below.

Bible Truth

• “People of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus from Nazareth was a very special man. God clearly showed this to you by the miracles, wonders, and signs he did through Jesus. You all know this, because it happened right here among you. Jesus was given to you, and with the help of those who don’t know the law, you put him to death by nailing him to a cross. But this was God’s plan which he had made long ago; he knew all this would happen. God raised Jesus from the dead and set him free from the pain of death, because death could not hold him” (Acts 2:22-24, NCV).
  
  
• • “For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him [Jesus], and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross” (Colossians 1:15-20).



• “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross” (Colossians 1:15-20).

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