Christianity In The Play Of The Sacrament

It has been noted that the Jews arrived from Rouen by invitation from William the Conqueror. Jews were the outsiders of the Christian society, Christians feared that the Jews would start to spread their beliefs among other people to try and influence them to convert to their religious beliefs. Christians and Jews both have Jesus in their religion, but Christians believe that Jesus is the messiah and savior, while Jews believe that is he not considered a divine being. Both of these religions believe in one God. All holidays that were related to Jesus, Jews did not celebrate. During the play of the Sacrament, the differences of Jews and Christians are shown. All of the characters believe in God. They thank Him for all his blessings and what they have with their jewels and wealth. We see how Jews are not taking Jesus seriously along with the bread and the wine. In the play that the four Jews decide to stab the host to see whether or not it will bleed; and it does. Then Jonathas tries to throw the host in oil, but the host sticks to his hands. All of these things happen and the four become afraid. This play is showing how the Jews were taking it as a joke of the host. But then they see the image of Christ and realizes that Jesus is the divine. They went back
Christian laws said that Christian people could not lend money out at interest, but most kings and queens needed to borrow money. This is when the Jews played a big role in the medieval economy as moneylenders. But lending money to kings were risky. Sometimes the king paid the money back, and the Jews made some money. Other times the king found it easier to just throw the Jews out of his kingdom, or made new laws saying that Christians didn't have to pay Jews back the money they had borrowed. King Edward 1 of England, solved some of his money problems by throwing all the Jews out of England in 1290 and they were not allowed back for more than 300