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And I know part of the answer and could certainly research more into it but this is an area where I'm interested in how people interpret it.

So, did Jesus get punished by the Romans because he'd been doing stuff against their laws and they finally nailed him (NO PUN INTENDED) for it? Or did he get sent down for a crime he didn't commit?

And for the purposes of this question I don't really care if he was divine or not. The question is presumably the same even if he was just a normal mortal guy who was going around sermonizing about a new flavor of Judaism he just invented, and got killed and stayed dead.

Unless you think specifically what the Romans charged him with was Doing Magic. Maybe they had a law against healing the sick and making the blind see and exploiting item duplication bugs to make too much fish and bread

Another way to look at it is to question what you think Judas did. Did he frame Jesus, and due to the terrible state of the justice system of occupied Judea, Jesus was executed for it?

Or did he turn in a known criminal who had broken some Roman law? So legally fine, just presumably not ethically, in the "it is just to disobey an unjust law" sense.

To be clear I'm not asking "what's the scholarly/'correct' answer". I have Google, I can research that myself. I'm asking how you interpret it from Sunday school or movies or whatever

OK as a teen I was in a Way of the Cross play at my church as Pilate. Pilate wanted to give a slap on the wrist and let Jesus go. Only laws broken were Hebrew laws not Roman. J wouldn't play along "It is you who say I am" "give to Caesar what is Caesar's" and all that.