Paragraph 2. JESUS DIED CRUCIFIED

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

597
The historical complexity of Jesus’ trial is apparent in the Gospel accounts.
the personal sin of the participants (Judas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate) is known to
God alone. Hence we cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in
Jerusalem as a whole, despite the outcry of a manipulated crowd and the global
reproaches contained in the apostles’ calls to conversion after
Pentecost.³⁸⁵ Jesus himself, in forgiving them on the cross, and Peter
in following suit, both accept “the ignorance” of the Jews of
Jerusalem and even of their leaders.³⁸⁶ Still less can we extend
responsibility to other Jews of different times and places, based merely on the
crowd’s cry: “His blood be on us and on our children!”, a formula for
ratifying a judicial sentence.³⁸⁷ As the Church declared at the Second
Vatican Council: . . .

PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
  - Article 4 “JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED”
    - Paragraph 2. JESUS DIED CRUCIFIED

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