'The Jews Killed Jesus': Blood Libel or Biblical Truth? | Ep 1301
Allie Beth Stuckey | 9.II.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUfXGtQoYuk
1:54 Sounds you agree with St. Ignatius of Loyola, "omnia in maiorem Dei gloriam".
Nice to see one Catholicism point here!
5:45 Could I amend "at the behest of the Jewish people" to "at the behest of a Jewish crowd, which decades later came to define the Jewish people" (and still doesn't define it in Heavenly Jerusalem, see certain verses Apoc 2 and 3)?
10:00 It can be noted, after a Christian boy was found killed around a Jewish passover, one of the Jews converted, became a monk and stated that this was a magic ritual to further a kind of proto-Zionist cause.
Ah, here it is, St. William of Norwich:
Thomas of Monmouth's account is attributed to the testimony of a monk and former Jew named Theobald of Cambridge. Theobald alleged that the murder was a human sacrifice and that the "ancient writings of his fathers" required the yearly killing of a Christian on Good Friday. This was allegedly for two reasons: to one day return to the Holy Land during the Messianic Age and to punish Jesus Christ for the religious persecution that the Jewish people continued to experience at the hands of his followers.
In this case, it may be noted there was no trial. However in this case there was:
The events themselves have been reconstructed from a careful study of the trial records by American historian Ronnie Hsia. Simon, almost two and a half years old, went missing about 5 p.m. on the evening of Thursday, 23 March 1475. The following day, Good Friday, Simon's father approached the prince-bishop to ask for help in finding his missing child. ...
You could of course agree with Ronnie Hsia, who probably considers the Jews innocent.
Or you could find this detail somewhat more decisive:
An examination of the corpse by city doctors determined that Simon had not died of natural causes but had been exsanguinated.
Basically, there are only two possibilities on this one. Either the Jews of Trent were very corrupt, or the Christian magistrate of Trent was very corrupt.
I guess it was the Jews of Trent who were so.
Nevertheless, when it comes to St. Andrew of Rinn, I think the uncle could have been the culprit, and if he wasn't, the persons who posed as Jews before the uncle could have been a witch cult with little to no connection with Judaism. Now, if the uncle was the culprit, Andrew is still a martyr, for his mother's chastity or perhaps even his own. As long as he was alive, the widowed mother could not get a dispensation to marry the uncle as per OT levirate laws. Didn't stop the uncle from lusting, though.
10:03 I'm not aware of any Medieval account saying red matzoth were a Passover meal.
On my guess of what Jews of this sort could have been doing (based on Theobald's view), the kidnapping of a Christian boy was eventually followed by sending out of either white or red matzoth, the latter with his blood.
White matzoth would have meant, the boy "agreed" (at c. age 3 and up, before puberty) to become a Jew, got circumcised, had his first Passover meal. Red matzoth would have meant "mission failed" ....
Remember a few things:
- Theobald mentioned the idea of punishing Christians;
- Christian apologists had made a point of Genesis 49:10, adding that the Messiah must have come before Jews lost the right to execute (in this context, confer John 8 and Acts 7 with John 18:31), sth which happened in AD 6 when Archelaus was deposed;
- so, Jews counted Christians above puberty as so sinful, that executing an adult or teen Christian wouldn't have targetted specifically Christianity.
10:12 What is your credible view of Sts Simon of Trent and William of Norwich?
These boys very certainly existed and were buried before reaching puberty.
I've already exonerated the Jews as to St. Andrew of Rinn, whose relics were recently removed from the village church, as if exoneration of Jews automatically meant he was no martyr.
10:33 I the 19th C, in Xanten, a boy was found, determined by doctors to be exsanguinated.
On 29 June 1891, Johann Hegemann, the five-year-old son of a local cabinet maker, was found dead in a neighbour's barn, with his throat cut from ear to ear.
10:45 Actually, Austro-Fascism was encouraging as, shall we say, propaganda against Orthodox Judaism, the idea that four killed boys in the area (I think they were all in the area), including Sts Simon and Andrew, were killed by Orthodox Jews because they were very strict.
The problem, apart from those in the case of St. Andrew of Rinn, is, things that every Jew did in the Middle Ages, and things that Orthodox Jews do now, coincide to a large degree. So, they may have been wrong in singling out Orthodox Jews, one could think of secular Zionists ...
11:27 St. Paul did mention the Jews killing Jesus:
For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men
[1 Thessalonians 2:14-15]
Now, to be very fair, he also mentioned his adressees being their countrymen, so, presumably ethnically Jewish.
But he's starting to use "the Jews" as it has been used through Christian history.
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