James Carroll writes about how the Gospel narratives of the passion and death of Jesus have, across centuries, framed how Jews are perceived.
An unfathomed thermal current long running below the surface of a broad culture—call it the culture of “the West”—is still being tapped, even if unconsciously. That current was first generated roughly two thousand years ago, in the way that early followers of Jesus told the story of the Crucifixion, as a crime laid at the feet of the Jews.
In these ways, the “Gospel truth” boils down to a conflict of Jesus against the Jews. The first chapter of John declares, “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” Not so. The only people who received Jesus in his lifetime—his apostles and disciples—were his own; they were Jewish. Gradually, across the many years in which the Gospels took shape, Jesus came to be regarded as divine: he is depicted in John as saying, “I and my Father are one.
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