A crime has be defined as “an Act punishable by law of
that particular state or nation were the Act was to be committed. According to section
10(1)A of the criminal code Act CAP 77
LFN “Law” includes any order, rules
of court, regulations or proclamation
made under the authority of such law.
And a breach of such laws will involve punishment such as death, imprisonment, fine caning
etc.
Having the definition of crime and its punishments
when breached, Jesus as the all
knowing God “the messiah” as he claimed knowing
the real implication of committing a crime went ahead to committee so many
crime against the Jewish law. However, not just against the Jewish law, but
infringed people Fundamental Human Right which was ordained by God.
First, he allowed his disciples to pluck the head of
grain and eat on the Sabbath day which was a crime against Jewish laws and when
he was approached by the Pharisees he defended his disciples and encouraged
them to carry on their activities.
In order words, he conspired with the disciples to
deliberately commit crime. However, according to S.516 of criminal code
Act (supra), which provides as follows:
“Any person who conspire with another to
conduct a crime or to do any act in any part of the world which if done in
Nigeria would be a crime and which is an offence under the law in force in the
place where it is proposed to be done, is guilty of a felony and is liable, if
no other punishment is provided to imprisonment for seven years.”
Looking at it
from the provision of this code Act it will be seen that Jesus is liable for
Conspiring with His disciple to committee a crime which was against Jewish law.
To further buttress this point here Jesus himself went ahead to committee that
same crime of doing something unlawful on the Sabbath day and that is the
healing of the man with a withered hand.
He knew that doing all these things are unlawful yet he want ahead and
committed those crimes because he want to do something that will provoke the
Jewish authority so that he can be killed.
Secondly, Jesus committed a lot of crime against the
state and human person. On the case of human right, Jesus breached the right to
private and personal property of the herdsmen who were taking care of their
pigs when he command the evil spirit in
a man possessed by demons as was recorded in matt 8:28. There he
sent the demons into the pigs and the pigs rushed down to the river and were
all drawn in the river and when the herdsmen saw it they were afraid and he
never did sometime to compensate them.
Thirdly, is Jesus means of cleaning the temple
justifiable? Before answer the above question, we should have in mind that this
same temple cleaned by Jesus was the same temple he said that he was going to
destroy. And also the same temple were built by the Jews.
According to the Matt, 21:12 which gave the
account of the cleansing (i.e.) the mode or method he used in the cleaning we
were made to understand that he use unreasonable force in ejecting the people
out of the temple and also letting the peoples pigeons to escape. Some of these
people earn there living in selling the same pigeons and these people were full
citizens of Jew. He went on to say in verse 13
“It is written, my house shall be called a house of
prayer but you make it a den of robbers”.
From the above statement he is indirectly calling the
Jewish citizen robbers and also he said
“my house” when he said my house he was referring to the temple which he
died not contribute in building and more
so He (Jesus) said that “the son of man
has no place to lay his head, a place be
can called his own…” all this facts here
are just pointing out that he
wanted himself to be killed by the Jews.