Why do Jews believe that Jesus never died on the cross?

Answer 1

AnswerJews do believe that Jesus died. Although the Jews never found any records of the event, most Jews also believe that he probably died on the cross, simply because Christians say that this happened. What Jews do not believe is that he rose again on the third day, or that he was the son of God.

Answer 2

Had Jesus really been resurrected, the Torah-sages of the time would have, at the very least, verbally acknowledged the event. Instead, Jesus and his life are dismissed in complete silence in the teachings of our 1st-century leaders.

Answer 3

Jews believe that Jesus did not die for the sins of all people because such a thing is impossible according to the teachings of Judaism and the Tanach (Jewish Bible). Additionally, the Christian concept of 'sin' doesn't exist in Judaism.

According to the Tanach, it is not possible to:

1. Atone for the mistakes of others.
2. Atone for mistakes not yet made.

Furthermore, according to the Tanach, when we make a mistake, we must seek the forgiveness of the victim of that mistake. This means that if HaShem (The Creator) is the victim of our mistake, only He can forgive us. However, if the victim of our mistake is a person, only that person can forgive us. We must also correct the outcome of our mistakes and work to never repeat them.

Answer 4

Had Jesus really been resurrected, the Torah-sages of the time would have, at the very least, verbally acknowledged the event. Instead, Jesus and his life are dismissed in complete silence in the teachings of our 1st-century leaders.According to our tradition, the vast majority of the Jews at the time didn't hear of Jesus. The Torah-sages (Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel, Chanina ben Dosa, Bava ben Buta, Shimon ben Hillel, Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Akiva, and hundreds of others) were active at that time and their yeshivot (Torah-academies) were flourishing. Their tens of thousands of disciples and hundreds of thousands of sympathizers were active in the Jewish world in that generation; they were the leaders and the forefront of Judaism. As Josephus (Antiquities book 18) writes, "the cities give great attestations to them." The great majority of Jews loved their sages and their Torah.

The unlearned class of the Amei-haaretz (ignoramuses) was a small fringe of society, but even they would and did lay down their lives in order not to violate anything of the Torah. As one ancient historian famously wrote:

Hecateus declares again, "what regard we [Jews] have for our laws; and we resolve to endure anything rather than transgress them." And he adds: "They [Jews] may be stripped on this account, and have torments inflicted upon them, and be brought to the most terrible kinds of death, but they meet these tortures after an extraordinary manner, beyond all other people, and will not renounce the religion of their forefathers."

No one (even any of them who did hear of Jesus) - would have given any consideration to what was and is considered unacceptable for us.

Link: What in Christianity is unacceptable in Judaism?

The few who came in contact with Jesus soon lost interest, and the early Christians felt the need to turn to non-Jewish centers of population in order to gain adherents, while the Jews remained Jews.

In Judaism, Jesus was a regular human being who lived in olden times, and is not part of Jewish religious belief.
Link: What do Jews believe about God?

We may also note that according to our tradition, prophecy ceased about 340 years before the birth of Jesus; and public miracles stopped even earlier.

Here is a related topic:
The word "messiah" is the transliterated form of the Hebrew "moshiach." The word moshiach means "anointed." The title of moshiach was given to any person who was appropriately anointed with oil as part of their initiation to their service of God. We have had a number of meshichim (plural) in the form of kings and priests. There need be nothing supernatural about a moshiach.
This being said, there is a prophecy of a future moshiach. However, this is a relatively minor topic in Judaism and the Tanakh.
The Jewish requirements of the messiah have not yet been fulfilled. They are:
* Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).
* Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).
* Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred and oppression. "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more" (Isaiah 2:4).
* Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. "God will be King over all the world. On that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9).
* The messiah must be descended on his father's side from King David (Genesis 49:10 and Isaiah 11:1).
* The messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah-observance. The Torah states that all of its mitzvot (commands) remain binding forever.

Answer 5

No, they believed that the messiah is yet to come but the Christians and Catholics think the Messiah or christ had already come.

Answer 6

There is no evidence for the resurrection aside from the New Testament account and the New Testament has no scriptural value for Jews.