Isn't it biblical to say the Jews are responsible for killing Jesus?

🔥The question: “Isn't there a verse that says, ‘His blood be upon us and upon our children’?”

🛡️The Church's answer: Jesus was a Jew, and Mary, the apostles, and the first disciples were Jews as well. The Passion involves a tangle of factors: the opposition of some leaders, the choice of a crowd, and the actual power of the Roman governor and his soldiers. The Church teaches clearly that the death of Jesus cannot be charged as collective responsibility either to all the Jews of that time or to Jews today.

🧐If they press further: “Then who is responsible, in terms of faith?” — Christianity reflects that the sin of every human being is bound up with the Passion of Christ, but this is not a call to attack a particular people; it is a call for each person to repent and to receive the love that gave itself for all. Antisemitism runs against the Gospel.

✨In one sentence: “Pinning the death of Jesus on the whole Jewish people and their descendants is not Catholic teaching, and it turns the Bible into a tool of hatred.”