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Was Jesus a Jew?

Discovering the Jewish Jesus

Was Jesus a Jew? Some people claim that Jesus was a Christian. Some have claimed that he was an Aryan Christian. But in recent decades scholars have been returning to ancient historical settings and discovering the Jewish Jesus. Anthony J. Saldarini’s Bible Review article “What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus?” cautions against wrenching Jesus out of his Jewish world.

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Was Jesus a Jew? This late-15th-century painting by the Spanish artist known as the Master of Perea depicts a Last Supper of lamb, unleavened bread and wine—all elements of the Seder feast celebrated on the first night of the Jewish Passover festival. Whether the Last Supper was a Passover Seder is one issue scholars have raised as they have been discovering the Jewish Jesus. Photo: Christie’s Images/Superstock.

Jesus himself didn’t write the Gospels. They are late-first-century accounts that we are continually interpreting. In seeking to emphasize the uniqueness of Jesus, traditions have distanced Jesus from the cultural setting of his day, whether that be his Jewish roots or the larger Greco-Roman world.

In the 19th century, German theologians emphasized this distance as Saldarini explains below. Was Jesus a Jew? Was Christianity a Jewish sect? The conflicts in the early church between Peter, claiming his Jewishness, and Paul, the missionary to Gentiles, were more complex than some 19th-century theologians have allowed.

Albrecht Ritschl saw a Jesus who attacked Scribes and Pharisees and, he claimed, Judaism itself. Jesus taught something so new that it overthrew and superseded his Jewishness. Christianity itself was to be purified of its Jewish elements. Ritschl turned this theology to attacks on Jews, giving ammunition to the 20th-century Holocaust.

Ritschl’s Jesus focused on his personal relationship with God—a relationship that transcended historical contexts. But Jesus was born in a Jewish home and lived in the Jewish culture and in the land of Israel. Was Jesus a Jew? Yes, Theological study is further discovering the Jewish Jesus and what his Jewishness means to Christian theology and Jewish-Christian relations.

For Christians, Jesus’ Jewishness is critically connected to his familiar role as Christ—more than an ethereal spiritual role but a role rooted in the history of the people of Israel. Disassociating Jesus from his ethnic roots can lead to violence toward Jesus’ own people. As Anthony J. Saldarini elaborates below in “What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus?” discovering the Jewish Jesus is a task that can give Christians a better understanding of Jesus.


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What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus?

To wrench Jesus out of his Jewish world destroys Jesus and destroys Christianity
Bible Review, June 1999
by Anthony J. Saldarini

When I was growing up in St. Kevin’s Parish in the Dorchester section of Boston in the 1940s and ’50s, Jesus was unquestionably a Christian. Even more strangely, in Germany during the Nazi era Jesus was an Aryan Christian. How did a first-century Galilean Jew become a Christian and, for some, an Aryan Christian at that?

Before we laugh at this foolishness, we should remember that we have not one word written by Jesus and not one contemporary account of his activities. Instead, we have four late-first-century interpretations of Jesus: the Gospels. Each demands and has received constant reinterpretation. Though the risk of misinterpreting Jesus is great, every generation has no choice but to try to make sense of the Gospels.

We necessarily interpret as we read, but not all interpretations are created equal, despite the claims of some postmodern thinkers. A Christian Jesus is a parochial, self-serving myth and an Aryan Jesus a perverse one. But why then have Christians so persistently thought of Jesus as a Christian and resisted admitting the obvious, that Jesus was a Jew? Answer: the pervasive problem of uniqueness.


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All religious traditions seek to present themselves as somehow special, better or primary, as irreplaceable or unique. For Christians this means that either Jesus as a person or his teachings and actions must stand out from his historical setting. For centuries the theological claim that Jesus is divine sufficed. In our empirical world of science and history, many Christian scholars take another tack; they seek to make Jesus dissimilar from the Judaism of his day and from the Greco-Roman world in which it was set.

As is often the case, contemporary historical and theological conflicts have their roots in the fertile scholarship of 19th-century Germany. The names Ferdinand Baur (1792–1860) and Albrecht Ritschl (1822–1889) may not immediately leap to mind, but a brief sketch of their activities will help illuminate Christian biases then and today.

Baur argued successfully that early Christianity had originated historically within Judaism and, less convincingly, that all of early Christian history reflected a struggle between a Jewish wing (led by Peter) and a gentile wing (led by Paul) until a synthesis was achieved. Subsequent scholarship has established that Paul was much more Jewish, and the conflicts among the early followers of Jesus much more complex, than Baur thought. But his fundamental point, the Jewish matrix of Christianity, endures.


In “Uncovering the Jewish Context of the New Testament,” Amy-Jill Levine reveals what Jews (and Christians) should know about Christian scripture and Jesus the Jew.


A Jesus who taught like a Jew and an early Christian community that looked like a Jewish sect troubled many 19th-century German Lutheran scholars, who preferred to envision a Jesus who taught a new and unique doctrine that overthrew the established tradition. In reaction to Baur, Albrecht Ritschl “solved” the problem by attacking the Jews. For him, Jesus did not reform or transform Judaism, he condemned it. Jesus the Jew, in Ritschl’s view, transcended Judaism by purifying Christianity of its Jewish elements. From the middle of the 19th century until World War II, numerous German scholars, including Adolf Harnack and Rudolf Bultmann, followed Ritschl’s lead in one way or another. None were Nazis, but reading them after the Holocaust leaves us with an eerie sensation.

Ritschl protected the uniqueness of Jesus and extricated him from his Jewish setting by replacing the Jewish Jesus with a Romantic Jesus who had a supernatural, ineffable relationship with God, a relationship that superseded all historical influences. Deep personal relationships are the stuff of modern theology and spirituality, but separated from the weave and grit of historical reality, the personal Jesus quickly devolves into a personal projection disconnected from community and culture.

So we must face the crucial question: Does Jesus the Jew—as a Jew—have any impact on Christian theology and on Jewish-Christian relations? Or is Jesus’ life as a Jew just accidental? After all, he had to be born something: Incan or Ethiopian, Mongolian or whatever. Is Jesus’ Jewishness superseded by his role as Christ, the Messiah (the “Anointed One”), sent by God to save all nations?

To wrench Jesus out of his Jewish world destroys Jesus and destroys Christianity, the religion that grew out of his teachings. Even Jesus’ most familiar role as Christ is a Jewish role. If Christians leave the concrete realities of Jesus’ life and of the history of Israel in favor of a mythic, universal, spiritual Jesus and an otherworldly kingdom of God, they deny their origins in Israel, their history, and the God who has loved and protected Israel and the church. They cease to interpret the actual Jesus sent by God and remake him in their own image and likeness. The dangers are obvious. If Christians violently wrench Jesus out of his natural, ethnic and historical place within the people of Israel, they open the way to doing equal violence to Israel, the place and people of Jesus. This is a lesson of history that haunts us all at the end of the 20th century.


“What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus?” by Anthony J. Saldarini originally appeared in Bible Review, June 1999. The article was first republished in Bible History Daily in September 2011.


Related reading in Bible History Daily:

Did Jesus Exist? Searching for Evidence Beyond the Bible

Uncovering the Jewish Context of the New Testament

Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder?

The Origin of Christianity

When Did Christianity Begin to Spread?


 

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184 Responses

  1. rodd says:

    If Jesus were a Jew, please explain John ch 8 v 44 in which JESUS HIMSELF tells us that JEWS are the “children of the devil” The Jews have already PROVED themselves NOT to be Israelites!
    To state that JESES was a JEW is PURE BLASPHEMY…!! There were NO JEWS at Sinai. I can tell you much much more.

    1. Samuel says:

      This verse is against those who opposed Jesus, not all the Jews. He had Jewish disciples. Do not lie and try to perverse the holy scriptures.

  2. Eddie says:

    Jewish? Yes at the time. Christianity didn’t rise until after Issa (Jesus) was gone. The Gospels? Written by a man. A man, not four, Saul. He wrote them all. Later the Jewish and Christian faiths once again became rife with idol worship and worship of men instead of God. Icons, relics, saints, plus the revision of God’s word by men later led to the rise of Islam, which warns to return focus to God, the one God, and stop worshipping multiple deities, icons, relics, etc.

  3. […] that follows is based in part on the article posted by the BAR, “Was Jesus a Jew?” Bible Archaeological Society, and various other sources as quoted […]

    1. Allan Webb says:

      Jesus, being a Jew and found without fault by the hierarchy of Judaism during his day, did attack and ultimately destroy many on the ways of Judaism. He primarily brought attention to the fallacies of the Mosaic Laws or Mitvot when he directly pointed out the hypocrisy of work on the Sabbath with the story of the ox in a ditch. Then when the men took up stones to stone a woman caught in adultery, he wrote something in the sand. Could it have been the law itself where it states that both people caught in adultery should be stoned. He most likely knew that some of the men holding the rocks were also guilty of the same and possibly by the same woman! Then there was the cleansing of the temple. In 70 ad, the kingdom of Israel ceased to exist. No king, no temple, no priests, no sacrifices, and ultimately, no hope found in Judaism. The nation known as Israel today is of man’s making. That’s one man’s opinion.

    2. This article seems to present a false choice – either Jesus was Jewish OR he said what is recorded of him. History shows both can be true. The Jews definitely looked for a Messiah/Christ who would be over the Jews and Gentiles. A new kingdom. More than there was Jewish thinking that there were 2 Yahweh’s who were one (search Michael Heiser Two Powers in Heaven).

  4. David Murray says:

    If I wasn’t so tired I’d consider a more detailed comment which on its face seems such a ridiculous question to begin with………….YES Jesus was born from Jewish parents but he IS the Son of God which places his existence on a plain still most cannot comprehend…………..Jesus was NOT a Christian………………..I, David Murray am a Christian because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ!!
    Jesus cannot be the follower of himself……………..He IS the founder of Christianity because He is the Christ………………God help us all here

    1. Allan Webb says:

      I would rather consider myself a follower of Jesus rather than a Christian due to the way that the modern, Western, Christian church has turned away from the New Testament teachings of Christ to falling in love with old Testament laws. Today’s preachers and teachers also make more laws based upon the letters written into the New Testament by Paul and others. They mistake Paul’s first century teachings as if they are viable in today’s world. Slave obey your masters is one example and his teachings about women in the church and their submission to men in all aspects of their lives was more culturally correct at that time. Not so today. Jesus emphatically said that love replaced laws in Matthew chapter 22:36-40. In essence, he was saying that making laws for Christians is going back to the way of condemnation that comes with the law. There is no life found in the law! The law is a tutor only. Thou shalt not covet kills every human on earth spiritually speaking. No one can see us doing it and we do it without realizing it! No the Christian life is founded on LOVE. One thing Paul did get right was in I Cor. 13:13 where he stated that three things were eternal. Faith, Hope, and Love. And the GREATEST of these is love.

    2. Jeffrey Guarino says:

      No this is wrong. Just because Jesus was the founder of Christianity does not mean he can’t be a member of it. God and the devil are Christians. They believe in Christ and not some other religions diety. Jesus definitely was not a Jew. He could have even done Jewish traditional stuff as he grew up but that was just for show.

  5. Peter Lia says:

    There can be no doubt that self-identifying “christians” are the most deceived, if not the most ignorant beings on earth. Jesus is NOT a jew, never was, never will be. Attaching any religion to Jesus is like pouring sludge into a pure glass of water. If Jesus is a jew it would mean the Kingdom of God is jewish. As it stands today, if jews live out there beliefs and blasphemies about Christ, there will not be one jew in the Kingdom. Essentially, “christans” are judaized jack asses who have yet to figure out that one cannot be crucified with Christ and baptized into His death when they don’t even believe in Him. Religious jews are the same today as they were 2,000 years ago. They still believe they are superior because they are jews, not because God gave them that identity. Human superiority goes against EVERYTHING God is and says and so does religion. It is bad enough jews slander Christ from one end of the planet to the other, but it is gravely disturbing that “christians” join in their romp. Read the Talmud, then tell me Jesus is a jew.

    1. Charles Chi Halevi says:

      Peter Lia’s ramblings are grossly distorted from reality. The fact that his written comments about Jews employ the lower case letter “j” for Jews is very telling; today’s anti-Semites are very fond of refusing to capitalize the word “Jew,” as Lia does so many times in his billingsgate screed.

      Here’s something else to infuriate his kind: Jesus was, in modern parlance, a card-carrying Pharisee in most cases. The Pharisees’ teachings are very much in line with much of what is ascribed to Jesus. For instance, it was the Pharisees who taught that when the Torah uses the term “an eye for an eye” it was never literally practiced (unlike Hammurabi’s law).

      Instead, the Pharisees said, it meant that if a person caused another person to lose an eye, that person was fiscally liable for five kinds of punishment; nezek, ts’ar, reepooy, shevet and boshet. In English this meant he had to pay for damage to that person; the pain he inflicted; medical bills; convalescence; and the shame the victim felt for being one-eyed. All this is found in the Talmud, which I believe Lia obviously never studied.

      I could go on in greater length and, if invited by the editors here, I would gladly share an article I wrote decades ago, called “Your Pharisee Heresy.”

      1. Zachary Keeter says:

        Oh, stop it. Peter is speaking the truth and you know it. Here’s something to chew on; Jews are no longer God’s chosen people. Not only did they scoff in his face every time they saw him, but they also killed the man. Of which, is not just the Son of God, but also was supposed to be their Messiah. But they rejected Him by killing Him. When they rejected Him, God turned to the Gentiles (us). Meaning, Christians are God’s chosen people now. Anyone who accepts Christ as King is a part of God’s chosen people. But truly, read the Talmud. You’ll find everything the Jews think about us, and about Christ, and even His mother, in there.

  6. Patrick Tilton says:

    Jesus never existed. The Gospels are pseudohistorical fabrications concocted by scholars working in the court of the Flavian Emperor whose purpose was to combat the religion of their opponents — Messianic Jewish Zealots — by inventing a Messiah who never existed yet who is portrayed in this false literature as if he was pro-Roman and anti-Jewish — a patent absurdity. By pretending that he existed c. AD 30, they could put ‘prophecies’ into his mouth that were accurately ‘fulfilled’ 40 years later — in the events of the Jewish War — thus ‘proving’ that he was divine, being able to predict the future . . . a future that had already happened by the time the Gospels were actually written.
    Read Joseph Atwill’s book CAESAR’S MESSIAH for a detailed deconstruction of the New Testament. Creating fake religions was a tactic that the Roman authorities employed to serve political ends. Christianity was invented by the Romans, in part as a punishment for the Jews who had dared to wage a war against their Roman overlords. The Christian antisemitism that has plagued the Jews ever since they lost the expensive war they waged was the intended effect — a curse against the Jewish people that has long outlived the Roman political power that was responsible for its creation in the first place.

    1. David G says:

      then it would have been totally possible for romans to quench every Christian activity, and break their cores…

      but look at that – – that didn’t happen.

      so you’re telling me that romans failed to destroy religion made on their whim, on which they should have had every resource to completely expose its fraud? even if it was taking the hearts of roman citizens?

    2. Rose White says:

      Patrick Tilton is a fool.

    3. FToni says:

      The evidence indicates Jesus, a Jewish Rabbi, existed and was crucified by Pontius Pilate.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Jesus

  7. Vernie Taylor says:

    If Jesus is taken out of the context of Judaism, then his life and teachings as well as the core theological tenets of Christianity are all completely meaningless.. #1-In what religion did we find the invention of the idea and even the term “messiah’? #2-What religion has seen several messiahs arise in their history whose stories have been absorbed into their sacred scripture? #3-To whom is a future messiah promised? so on and so forth,….

  8. Paulo Mendes Glória says:

    He was not. He’s because he’s alive. There is no record of your conversion. He was born, grew up, preached, died and rose again as a Jew.

  9. Jim says:

    Jesus was a jew.

    1. Debra Field-Henry says:

      AMEN

  10. dogma says:

    I think judaism is a seperate religion than the new testament, but Joseph may have had Israel ruites

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    1. Merciry says:

      Men Wrote the Bible. They found ancient scrolls written in a dead language and tried to translate them but what if the scrolls they call themselves translating were an attempted translation from another dead language themselves and what if it goes on and on. Knowing the possibilities how can people take the Bible as “Gospel”. Why so many contradictions in it? “Elohim” doesn’t make mistakes right? Maybe not but Men sure do.

  12. John says:

    I like to say I don’t know about what I don’t know, which I believe we should all do that. But I just looked up John 4 and in verse
    22 he tells the woman “you Samaritans worship what you do not know, WE worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.”. I mean you can always ask Jesus himself right? Until then there’s nothing wrong with stating what is true. We don’t know. Thank you.

  13. John says:

    I like to say I don’t know about what I don’t know, which I believe we should all do that. But I just looked up John 4 and in verse
    22 he tells the woman “you Samaritans worship what you do not know, WE worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.”. I mean you can always ask Jesus himself right? Until then there’s nothing wrong with stating what is true. We don’t know. Thank you.

  14. John says:

    That is a great point and as true as that sounds I feel, after receiving the holy spirit that I have great point as well. Hear me out. How about we say “we do not know” about the things we do not know about. It’s that simple. One more thing, to find what everyone is seeking, which is “truth”, religion must be pushed aside. Religion limits you and builds walls keeping you in and what may be actual truth out. Thank you for your time.

  15. John says:

    That is a great point and as true as that sounds I feel, after receiving the holy spirit that I have great point as well. Hear me out. How about we say “we do not know” about the things we do not know about. It’s that simple. One more thing, to find what everyone is seeking, which is “truth”, religion must be pushed aside. Religion limits you and builds walls keeping you in and what may be actual truth out. Thank you for your time.

  16. Nero says:

    You’ve got it completely backwards. To NOT wrench Jesus out of judaism is to destroy any kind of decency, much less divinity, that this Jesus person really represented. To put a wrench in C.S. Lewis’s ‘trilemma’… Jesus was either an awakened being trying to teach against judaism, or he was a lying lunatic. Hopefully the real Jesus WAS trying to teach against judaism, which is a heinous ideology. If we are to imagine Jesus as a benevolent and sane religious teacher, we must see Jesus as someone who completely transcended judaism. No decent person would support stoning people to death, or murdering them for skipping the sabbath day, cutting baby genitals for jewish rituals, etc. The real Jesus had to be someone completely different than what the bible mostly portrays him as, otherwise we are left with an entirely contradictory/inconsistent set of scriptures between the so called ‘old’ and new testament.

    1. David says:

      This is an ignorant take “Nero”. You are calling Jewish religious thought “heinous” yet fail to understand that in the context of the wider world, it was far more humanitarian than what you would have seen back then. Jesus, like the various prophets before him, pointed out hypocrisy and care for the weak and helpless,

      Jeremiah did this as well and was similarly condemned. The difference for us Christians is that we see him as more than a teacher and prophet, we see him as our savior and the Son of God. To transcend Judaism as you state, he must have been grounded in it first, which is the whole point of the scholarship summarized in the article.

      What you are arguing is akin to saying that Thomas Jefferson’s political philosophy was completely alien and separate to that of England, that he basically created everything out of thin air, when the reality is that he built his ideas concerning America from the heritage of the British fight for liberty going back to Magna Carta and the Battle of Runnymede.

  17. Nero says:

    You’ve got it completely backwards. To NOT wrench Jesus out of judaism is to destroy any kind of decency, much less divinity, that this Jesus person really represented. To put a wrench in C.S. Lewis’s ‘trilemma’… Jesus was either an awakened being trying to teach against judaism, or he was a lying lunatic. Hopefully the real Jesus WAS trying to teach against judaism, which is a heinous ideology. If we are to imagine Jesus as a benevolent and sane religious teacher, we must see Jesus as someone who completely transcended judaism. No decent person would support stoning people to death, or murdering them for skipping the sabbath day, cutting baby genitals for jewish rituals, etc. The real Jesus had to be someone completely different than what the bible mostly portrays him as, otherwise we are left with an entirely contradictory/inconsistent set of scriptures between the so called ‘old’ and new testament.

    1. John says:

      That is a great point and as true as that sounds I feel, after receiving the holy spirit that I have great point as well. Hear me out. How about we say “we do not know” about the things we do not know about. It’s that simple. One more thing, to find what everyone is seeking, which is “truth”, religion must be pushed aside. Religion limits you and builds walls keeping you in and what may be actual truth out. Thank you for your time.

  18. Jerry Samuels says:

    Jesus was not Jewish. That would have been impossible. Or to say it in the negative if Jesus was Jewish then he could not have been The Messiah. Jews do not believe Jesus is The Messiah. Which means that Jesus would have had to believe that he was not who “He” said he was. Jesus like all Jews was a Hebrew. But he could not have been Jewish because Judaism is a refutation of his core Christian beliefs and Christianity is a refutation of the core beliefs of Judaism.

    An additional though less important reason why you can know Jesus was not Jewish is because of what he said in John 8:44-59. John 4:25-26 should clarify any confusion you may have on this point.

    1. Lennon says:

      Many of the comments here are down right terrible! I see so much hate in the comments of this post which is speaking of Jesus! You should be ashamed to speak in such ways!

      I see the hate here towards Jewish people so if you’re one of the people you’ll definitely not like this but it’s a fact and you can’t deny it! Jesus was born, lived, and died as a Jew, period!

      Jesus Celebrates Passover with His Disciples:

      Matthew 26:17 Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

      Jesus was called Rabbi:

      Luke 19:39 Thereupon some of the Pharisees in the crowd appealed to Him, saying, “Rabbi, reprove your disciples.”

      Jesus was angry when he seen a market inside a Jewish Temple which he called a house of God:

      Matthew: 21:12-14

      ‘’ And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves. And said to them, it is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.”

      And for the nonsense of Jewish people not being Gods chosen, this is NOT what the Bible says!

      Deuteronomy 10:15

      “Yet the Lord set His affection on your ancestors and loved them, and He chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today”

      Deuteronomy 7:6

      “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession”

      Deuteronomy 31:6

      “Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

      And lastly, God will never forget or forsake Israel!

      “For the Lord will not reject His people; He will never forsake His inheritance” (Psalm 94:14).

      “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me” (Isaiah 49:15–16).

      Do go against any of this is to go against the word of God!

      1. nicetryschlomo says:

        OY VEYY!!! HOW ANTI-SEMETIC TO SAY THAT JESUS ISN’T A JEW!!! None of the quotes you posted remotely prove that Jesus was a Jew. Not a single one of them.

  19. Jerry Samuels says:

    Jesus was not Jewish. That would have been impossible. Or to say it in the negative if Jesus was Jewish then he could not have been The Messiah. Jews do not believe Jesus is The Messiah. Which means that Jesus would have had to believe that he was not who “He” said he was. Jesus like all Jews was a Hebrew. But he could not have been Jewish because Judaism is a refutation of his core Christian beliefs and Christianity is a refutation of the core beliefs of Judaism.
    An additional though less important reason why you can know Jesus was not Jewish is because of what he said in John 8:44-59. John 4:25-26 should clarify any confusion you may have on this point.

  20. Ellen Browning says:

    Great read and like to read more,love my Saviour

  21. Ellen Browning says:

    Great read and like to read more,love my Saviour

  22. :Baron says:

    Honestly, it really doesn’t matter. The fact is, Yeshua HaMashiac was then and is now the savior G-d spoke of in the Torah/Old Testament. Once Jesus (Greek for Yeshua) was born, Judaism ended. The New Testament is a history book that focuses on Yeshua HaMashiac as the savior of mankind. The Pharisees didn’t see it that way. Modern day orthodox Jews are an extension of those Pharisees, they are the last remaining remnants of a sect that didn’t accept Jesus.

    It’s sad to see Jews repeatedly slander the New Testament by continuously proclaiming that they are the chosen people. They are clinging to a falsity that is spiritually debasing to their kind. Let it go people, join the land of truth already.

    Judaism is dead.

    :Baron

  23. :Baron says:

    Honestly, it really doesn’t matter. The fact is, Yeshua HaMashiac was then and is now the savior G-d spoke of in the Torah/Old Testament. Once Jesus (Greek for Yeshua) was born, Judaism ended. The New Testament is a history book that focuses on Yeshua HaMashiac as the savior of mankind. The Pharisees didn’t see it that way. Modern day orthodox Jews are an extension of those Pharisees, they are the last remaining remnants of a sect that didn’t accept Jesus.
    It’s sad to see Jews repeatedly slander the New Testament by continuously proclaiming that they are the chosen people. They are clinging to a falsity that is spiritually debasing to their kind. Let it go people, join the land of truth already.
    Judaism is dead.
    :Baron

  24. Dan says:

    I’m always amused (and sometimes confused) by those that ask this question; the answer couldn’t be clearer. Religion is a set of beliefs. The fundamental belief of Christianity is that Jesus was the Son of God. Jews do not believe he was. Jesus is clearly on the record as believing he was….there is no rational argument of what his ‘religion’ was.

  25. Dan says:

    I’m always amused (and sometimes confused) by those that ask this question; the answer couldn’t be clearer. Religion is a set of beliefs. The fundamental belief of Christianity is that Jesus was the Son of God. Jews do not believe he was. Jesus is clearly on the record as believing he was….there is no rational argument of what his ‘religion’ was.

  26. MARILYN YAFFEE says:

    YOU KNOW THERE IS NO ARGUMENT–JESUS WAS AT THE PASSOVER SEDER…..HE DIDN’T TEACH ANYTHING BUT THE TORAH…CERTAINLY NOT CHRISTIANITY. IT DIDN’T EXIST…AND HOW CAN JESUS BE THE MESSIAH ? BECAUSE G-D SAID IN THE JEWISH BIBLE…THAT WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES ” Messiah (the “Anointed One”), sent by God to save all nations”..AND PEACE SHALL REIGN…I AM NO HISTORIAN JUST JEWISH…KINDA KNOW THAT THIS IS IN THE JEWISH BIBLE…SO PREY TELL WHEN DID THE WORLD EVER ENJOY PEACE?? SOOOO NO PEACE! NO MESSIAH! WE ARE STILL WAITING…NO PROBLEM…WE ARE PRETTY SUCCESSFUL- EDUCATED,,,HAVE GIVEN GREAT GIFTS TO THE WORLD IN SCIENCE MEDICINE AND LETS NOT FORGET THE MOVIES….WE HAVE SHARED EVERYTHING.AND WHAT DID WE GET IN RETURN–6 MILLION DIED AND WHY? THEY WERE JEWISH…SO BE HONEST IF A MAN DOES NOT FULFILL THE PROPHECY HE JUST IS NOT THE MESSIAH…MARCIA

  27. MARILYN YAFFEE says:

    YOU KNOW THERE IS NO ARGUMENT–JESUS WAS AT THE PASSOVER SEDER…..HE DIDN’T TEACH ANYTHING BUT THE TORAH…CERTAINLY NOT CHRISTIANITY. IT DIDN’T EXIST…AND HOW CAN JESUS BE THE MESSIAH ? BECAUSE G-D SAID IN THE JEWISH BIBLE…THAT WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES ” Messiah (the “Anointed One”), sent by God to save all nations”..AND PEACE SHALL REIGN…I AM NO HISTORIAN JUST JEWISH…KINDA KNOW THAT THIS IS IN THE JEWISH BIBLE…SO PREY TELL WHEN DID THE WORLD EVER ENJOY PEACE?? SOOOO NO PEACE! NO MESSIAH! WE ARE STILL WAITING…NO PROBLEM…WE ARE PRETTY SUCCESSFUL- EDUCATED,,,HAVE GIVEN GREAT GIFTS TO THE WORLD IN SCIENCE MEDICINE AND LETS NOT FORGET THE MOVIES….WE HAVE SHARED EVERYTHING.AND WHAT DID WE GET IN RETURN–6 MILLION DIED AND WHY? THEY WERE JEWISH…SO BE HONEST IF A MAN DOES NOT FULFILL THE PROPHECY HE JUST IS NOT THE MESSIAH…MARCIA

    1. John says:

      The peace that Jesus brought was reconciliation with God the father not “world peace.” After Jesus’ second coming and His people are with Him in His kingdom, there will be no more tears, pain, and suffering. Jesus, the son of God, is the Messiah. Those who believe in Him will have everlasting life, Jesus is the only way to His kingdom. He who has an ear let him hear.

  28. Roll says:

    This shouldn’t be complicated to figure out. We are told that Jesus was born to a mother and father that followed Judaism, born in a city (Bethlehem) that was once located in a nation that was once called the “Kingdom of Judah”. Jesus would grow up, learning, reading and teaching the Torah in synagogues, and his 12 disciples were also followers of the Torah. On the day Jesus was crucified, the roman soldiers brought him down from the cross before sunset simply out of respect of his sabbath observance. Christianity didn’t really take hold until some 200 years after his death, when Roman Emperor Constantine (Jewish mother) declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. So yeah, I believe that Jesus, we could say for all intended purposes, was Jewish, and Christianity is a Jewish Sect.

  29. Roll says:

    This shouldn’t be complicated to figure out. We are told that Jesus was born to a mother and father that followed Judaism, born in a city (Bethlehem) that was once located in a nation that was once called the “Kingdom of Judah”. Jesus would grow up, learning, reading and teaching the Torah in synagogues, and his 12 disciples were also followers of the Torah. On the day Jesus was crucified, the roman soldiers brought him down from the cross before sunset simply out of respect of his sabbath observance. Christianity didn’t really take hold until some 200 years after his death, when Roman Emperor Constantine (Jewish mother) declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. So yeah, I believe that Jesus, we could say for all intended purposes, was Jewish, and Christianity is a Jewish Sect.

  30. Jeremy Walker says:

    Jews were first called Christians in Antioch because they mingled with them, studied and taught them. Christ was/ black from the seed of David a so-called black man. Christ was not a Christian He kept His Fathers Laws.

  31. Jeremy Walker says:

    Jews were first called Christians in Antioch because they mingled with them, studied and taught them. Christ was/ black from the seed of David a so-called black man. Christ was not a Christian He kept His Fathers Laws.

  32. Jeff says:

    Jews believe a large plot of land belongs to them because they have Abraham’s DNA. To prove this they follow the maternal blood line, where is Mary’s genealogy? If Jesus was born of the Holy Ghost and not Joseph Abraham’s DNA would not have come through the biblical genealogies in Matt & Luke

    1. Joseph says:

      The genealogy in Matthew 1 is Joseph’s, beginning with Abraham, proving Jesus’ legal right to the throne of David. The genealogy in Luke 3 is Mary’s, proving His biological descent through David back to Adam.
      The life of Jesus cannot be understood apart from the Old Testament, as He perfectly fulfilled the Law (not the Pharisaic legalistic additions) and dozens of Messianic prophecies.

    2. Greg says:

      Many of the comments here are down right terrible! I see so much hate in the comments of this post which is speaking of Jesus! You should be ashamed to speak in such ways!

      I see the hate here towards Jewish people so if you’re one of the people you’ll definitely not like this but it’s a fact and you can’t deny it! Jesus was born, lived, and died as a Jew, period!

      Jesus Celebrates Passover with His Disciples:

      Matthew 26:17 Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

      Jesus was called Rabbi:

      Luke 19:39 Thereupon some of the Pharisees in the crowd appealed to Him, saying, “Rabbi, reprove your disciples.”

      Jesus was angry when he seen a market inside a Jewish Temple which he called a house of God:

      Matthew: 21:12-14

      ‘’ And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves. And said to them, it is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.”

      And for the nonsense of Jewish people not being Gods chosen, this is NOT what the Bible says!

      Deuteronomy 10:15

      “Yet the Lord set His affection on your ancestors and loved them, and He chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today”

      Deuteronomy 7:6

      “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession”

      Deuteronomy 31:6

      “Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

      And lastly, God will never forget or forsake Israel!

      “For the Lord will not reject His people; He will never forsake His inheritance” (Psalm 94:14).

      “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me” (Isaiah 49:15–16).

      Do go against any of this is to go against the word of God!

  33. Jeff says:

    Jews believe a large plot of land belongs to them because they have Abraham’s DNA. To prove this they follow the maternal blood line, where is Mary’s genealogy? If Jesus was born of the Holy Ghost and not Joseph Abraham’s DNA would not have come through the biblical genealogies in Matt & Luke

    1. Jeremy Walker says:

      They have no real DNA the land the claim was stolen… They are imposters

  34. Dr. Bijoy Das says:

    Bullshit. Jesus was verily a Jew and he is mentioned in the Old Testament, Bhavishya Puran and Al Qoran clearly.

  35. Kristian says:

    Well I needed this for an assignment. Very useful

  36. Kristian says:

    Well I needed this for an assignment. Very useful

  37. James E Sullivan jr. says:

    I don’t think it matter what he was, it matters what he taught, I think it was probably very difficult for people of his time to live by the commandment of God Christians went to their death rather than compromise their beliefs and were fed to the lions . I’m guessing this was difficult to defeat so he was crucified , the Romans seeing this conviction of people’s faith wanted to be part of it and Catholics from then on believed in his death their sins were forgiven , however I dont think forgiveness comes in a pill I think forgiveness comes by forgiving just like the Lord’s prayer says forgive our trespass as we forgive those who trespass against us. I Know this is a very touchy subject with most everybody and I had no intention of offending any one , we are all sinners . I believe our strength and our peace is in our unity not our division hopefully we will someday all live in peace with each other , love a little more hate a little less we are all human.

  38. James E Sullivan jr. says:

    I don’t think it matter what he was, it matters what he taught, I think it was probably very difficult for people of his time to live by the commandment of God Christians went to their death rather than compromise their beliefs and were fed to the lions . I’m guessing this was difficult to defeat so he was crucified , the Romans seeing this conviction of people’s faith wanted to be part of it and Catholics from then on believed in his death their sins were forgiven , however I dont think forgiveness comes in a pill I think forgiveness comes by forgiving just like the Lord’s prayer says forgive our trespass as we forgive those who trespass against us. I Know this is a very touchy subject with most everybody and I had no intention of offending any one , we are all sinners . I believe our strength and our peace is in our unity not our division hopefully we will someday all live in peace with each other , love a little more hate a little less we are all human.

  39. Donna Fleming says:

    You are all crazy. Jesus was Jewish if he existed. Born, lived died a Jew.why deny his belief. He said “I come not to change the law”. A Jew ffs.

  40. Donna Fleming says:

    You are all crazy. Jesus was Jewish if he existed. Born, lived died a Jew.why deny his belief. He said “I come not to change the law”. A Jew ffs.

    1. Jilli says:

      He did indeed exist. But keep going: “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law but to FULFILL IT.” The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed; the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. Everything in the OT point to Jesus Christ and His fulfillment of the Law and of Prophecy.

      1. Jeremy Walker says:

        He, Christ fulfilled the Law of sacrifice. That’s it.

  41. ron says:

    Jesus was not a Hebrew, His knowledge came from Egypt, But only connection to the jewish faith was his mothers adopted religion from her husband. Mary Magdlene was not a hebrew either… who ever adopted and changed this wrote the bible has fooled the world. Married with children before being murdered by JEWS…. So why would Jesus be Jewish or hebrew? He was not

  42. Doug acebedo says:

    You cannot make comments based on a translation. Learn Greek if you wish to give your opinion of a Greek manuscript.

  43. Doug acebedo says:

    You cannot make comments based on a translation. Learn Greek if you wish to give your opinion of a Greek manuscript.

  44. Doug acebedo says:

    You cannot make an intelligent statement about something you read that was a translation. Go and learn Greek if you want to comment on Greek literature.

  45. Doug acebedo says:

    You cannot make an intelligent statement about something you read that was a translation. Go and learn Greek if you want to comment on Greek literature.

  46. Wesley Mcgranor says:

    Great postmodern aiding and abetting. As if it was not on purpose to blur the lines, so to speak. I’d like to thank the Holy Family for being Fulfilled Jews and thus White Supremacists.

  47. meno says:

    Something bothers me in all this stories about Jesus Christ. About if He was a jew or a christian. Maybe he was neither of them two at the end. He grew up in a jew tradition and culture and was back then a jew just as the rest. ok that is that. now we go to christianity, but here christianity and teaching came after his death and not from himself in person as He wasn’t alive anymore. So for me its like He is neither really jew anymore as He was teaching something else, a new teaching that wasn’t there in their time and no christian as He himself was not there anymore. So His teaching, the one of himself must be something else then jew and christian, but what? we ll never know as we can’t ask Him. must be something good and not evil, but what really ?

  48. meno says:

    Something bothers me in all this stories about Jesus Christ. About if He was a jew or a christian. Maybe he was neither of them two at the end. He grew up in a jew tradition and culture and was back then a jew just as the rest. ok that is that. now we go to christianity, but here christianity and teaching came after his death and not from himself in person as He wasn’t alive anymore. So for me its like He is neither really jew anymore as He was teaching something else, a new teaching that wasn’t there in their time and no christian as He himself was not there anymore. So His teaching, the one of himself must be something else then jew and christian, but what? we ll never know as we can’t ask Him. must be something good and not evil, but what really ?

  49. Gerald Nichols says:

    Much confusion would be dissipated if more would learn that Apostle Paul taught a “dispensation” of God’s Word.(Eph. 3:2)
    God temporarily set Israel aside and began the dispensation of Grace without Israel, and without the Law. Paul was the chosen apostle for this. God kept this development hidden [secret] from the beginning of the world.(Rom. 16:25)
    That is why Paul didn’t receive his gospel from man (Galations 1) but directly from the risen Lord.

  50. Gerald Nichols says:

    Much confusion would be dissipated if more would learn that Apostle Paul taught a “dispensation” of God’s Word.(Eph. 3:2)
    God temporarily set Israel aside and began the dispensation of Grace without Israel, and without the Law. Paul was the chosen apostle for this. God kept this development hidden [secret] from the beginning of the world.(Rom. 16:25)
    That is why Paul didn’t receive his gospel from man (Galations 1) but directly from the risen Lord.

  51. Kevin DeFranco says:

    He was Christ. Christians His followers, came after His death and Resurrection. A child can figure that out. Biblical ” scholars” do nothing more than twist and contort the simple truths found in God’s Word; not theirs. They try to confound people so that they never see the revealed truths of His Word. Jesus said in Mark 13…..Behold I have foretold you all things. Read His messages and learn for yourself. Get a Strong’s Concordance and a Smith’s Bible Dictionary and go for it!

  52. Kevin DeFranco says:

    He was Christ. Christians His followers, came after His death and Resurrection. A child can figure that out. Biblical ” scholars” do nothing more than twist and contort the simple truths found in God’s Word; not theirs. They try to confound people so that they never see the revealed truths of His Word. Jesus said in Mark 13…..Behold I have foretold you all things. Read His messages and learn for yourself. Get a Strong’s Concordance and a Smith’s Bible Dictionary and go for it!

  53. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Jesus was a Jew. As the Son of Man in the flesh, His lineage came from Mary, His mother. Her father was of the house of Judah. Her mother was of the house of Levi…..enough said. Then spiritually there was God. He was with God, and was God….The Word made flesh that dwelt among us. case closed.

  54. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Jesus was a Jew. As the Son of Man in the flesh, His lineage came from Mary, His mother. Her father was of the house of Judah. Her mother was of the house of Levi…..enough said. Then spiritually there was God. He was with God, and was God….The Word made flesh that dwelt among us. case closed.

  55. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Mary His mother. Her father was of the house of Judah. Her mother was of the house of Levi. A JEW O.K.! look in Luke to find it.

  56. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Mary His mother. Her father was of the house of Judah. Her mother was of the house of Levi. A JEW O.K.! look in Luke to find it.

  57. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Jesus’s Mother Mary. Her father was of the house of Judah, the King line. Her mother was of the house of Levi. Mary’s cousin Elizabeth was married to a Levitical priest. Jesus was of the King line and the priest line. And then there was God. The Jews are His Chosen people. putting two and two together are not difficult! As the Son of Man in the flesh He was Jewish. His spirit was of God and was God. Case closed.

  58. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Jesus’s Mother Mary. Her father was of the house of Judah, the King line. Her mother was of the house of Levi. Mary’s cousin Elizabeth was married to a Levitical priest. Jesus was of the King line and the priest line. And then there was God. The Jews are His Chosen people. putting two and two together are not difficult! As the Son of Man in the flesh He was Jewish. His spirit was of God and was God. Case closed.

  59. True Covenant Quotes and More says:

    Jews are Edomites by their own admission. Their religion is the Babylonian Talmud also known as tradition of the Elders. Christ was a Judahite living in the land of Judea. He was an Israelite. That doesn’t make him a mongrel Edomite for Edomites are mamzares and mamzares cannot inherit the kingdom saith YHWH

  60. True Covenant Quotes and More says:

    Jews are Edomites by their own admission. Their religion is the Babylonian Talmud also known as tradition of the Elders. Christ was a Judahite living in the land of Judea. He was an Israelite. That doesn’t make him a mongrel Edomite for Edomites are mamzares and mamzares cannot inherit the kingdom saith YHWH

  61. Dave says:

    Without A Doubt.

  62. Dave says:

    Without A Doubt.

  63. Dave says:

    Oh Absolutely.

  64. Dave says:

    Oh Absolutely.

  65. aswanash alehim says:

    to william my name is anagram from imanuel kristo ev eloh
    go to church if yoy believe anythingh

  66. William Bannister says:

    Jesus was called many things . . .

    Christian was NOT one of them. Not only was the Word Christian Χριστιανός Christianos NOT used for the first time until about 45 years after His death, to call Jesus a Christian is a nonsensical application of what Christian means and how it was used by culture THEN – when the text was written – not now.

    Christian means follower of the Messiah . . . follower of the Christ – from the Greek word Χριστός Christos which is informed by the Hebrew word and concept ‏מָשִׁיחַ‎ māshîach or Messiah as most will know it.

    To call Jesus a Christian is to call Him a follower of HIMSELF . . . .

    The FOLLOWERS of Jesus were called Christians (followers of the Messiah) by unbelievers as well as being called followers of the WAY because He said I AM the Way, . . the truth, the light . . . They were called Notzirim (Nazarenes) and they were also called HaManim (heretics).

  67. William Bannister says:

    Jesus was called many things . . .
    Christian was NOT one of them. Not only was the Word Christian Χριστιανός Christianos NOT used for the first time until about 45 years after His death, to call Jesus a Christian is a nonsensical application of what Christian means and how it was used by culture THEN – when the text was written – not now.
    Christian means follower of the Messiah . . . follower of the Christ – from the Greek word Χριστός Christos which is informed by the Hebrew word and concept ‏מָשִׁיחַ‎ māshîach or Messiah as most will know it.
    To call Jesus a Christian is to call Him a follower of HIMSELF . . . .
    The FOLLOWERS of Jesus were called Christians (followers of the Messiah) by unbelievers as well as being called followers of the WAY because He said I AM the Way, . . the truth, the light . . . They were called Notzirim (Nazarenes) and they were also called HaManim (heretics).

  68. Would Jesus Say “I’m Spiritual But Not Religious?” – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

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  69. Would Jesus Say “I’m Spiritual But Not Religious?” – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

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  70. aswanash alehim says:

    YH: lalekhtash seh terra tattosh naktash sah nashna
    imri: to people of terra , tattos nation is here, the beast of bible,
    nakta is his nation
    their ufos are like horse shoes and black in colour

  71. aswanash alehim says:

    in the last day you will answer what yoy have said
    imri
    not me because i speak every day with YH
    wetshkanesh, sanethkas selahim

  72. aswanash alehim says:

    my father YH ask from isis leaders why do yoy exist?
    imri

  73. aswanash alehim says:

    iesush was from nazareth

  74. aswanash alehim says:

    iesush was from nazareth

  75. My Own Testimony: Why Evangelism and Apologetics Can’t Be Separated From Each Other | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] me what I thought Jesus was black. I said there was not one shred of evidence for Jesus being black so I naturally said Jesus (while probably as a Mediterranean Jew was dark skinned) was Jewish. To this he replied by saying I was lying to people and deceiving them as well. After all […]

  76. My Own Testimony: Why Evangelism and Apologetics Can’t Be Separated From Each Other | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] me what I thought Jesus was black. I said there was not one shred of evidence for Jesus being black so I naturally said Jesus (while probably as a Mediterranean Jew was dark skinned) was Jewish. To this he replied by saying I was lying to people and deceiving them as well. After all […]

  77. My Own Testimony: Why Evangelism and Apologetics Can’t Be Seperated From Each Other | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] me what I thought Jesus was black. I said there was not one shred of evidence for Jesus being black so I naturally said Jesus (while probably as a Mediterranean Jew was dark skinned) was Jewish. To this he replied by saying I was lying to people and deceiving them as well. After all […]

  78. My Own Testimony: Why Evangelism and Apologetics Can’t Be Seperated From Each Other | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] me what I thought Jesus was black. I said there was not one shred of evidence for Jesus being black so I naturally said Jesus (while probably as a Mediterranean Jew was dark skinned) was Jewish. To this he replied by saying I was lying to people and deceiving them as well. After all […]

  79. Rick Carpenter says:

    Re the “Aryan scholarship”, unfortunately even today Gerhard Kittel’s Nazi-infused TWNT/TDNT is viewed as a valid resource for Christians.
    And @Gerald re use of “the Jews”: It’s not anti-Semitic. Josephus, Philo, and other unassailablely Jewish authors of the time used this term.

  80. Would Jesus Say “I’m spiritual, but not religious?” | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

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  81. Would Jesus Say “I’m spiritual, but not religious?” | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

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  82. aswanash alehim says:

    what it feels when yoy prai and yoy know there ish no one ever answering to yoy
    imri

  83. aswanash alehim says:

    i dont much approve terrorists, but not murders, not hebrews and ishmaELS’ priests, you should destroy yoyr holy places because yoyr god went away
    imrikaneskanesh

  84. aswanash alehim says:

    why yishrael and yishlam popes do not anything do stop killing people,why yoy cann’t live in peace, YH’s dream is that palestinians children are in synagoga, and jewish children in minagoga
    imri

  85. aswanash alehim says:

    iesush crusified because of yishrael popes, do yoy think he will come back and what YH thinks
    imri

  86. aswanash alehim says:

    no one has read from bible what Iesush said
    nehawah ne wah neh
    son of man
    imanuel
    sanektash sehamel

  87. Henry John Lisgo says:

    If christians read their bibles both old testement and New how could we think that Jesus was any other than be a Jew. I was born in 52 and have never thought any other than that Jesus was a jew. I hold an inner respect for the Jewish people and have had the priveledge of visiting the holy land.
    May God grant Jerusalem peace.

  88. Henry John Lisgo says:

    If christians read their bibles both old testement and New how could we think that Jesus was any other than be a Jew. I was born in 52 and have never thought any other than that Jesus was a jew. I hold an inner respect for the Jewish people and have had the priveledge of visiting the holy land.
    May God grant Jerusalem peace.

  89. YH says:

    ¨larim olet pieni paska siellä yhteisössä,ja tämä tuli isältä YH

    YH

  90. YH says:

    ¨larim olet pieni paska siellä yhteisössä,ja tämä tuli isältä YH
    YH

  91. El Koussa says:

    Of course Jesus was not a Jew. His real name is Yāwshu not Yehoshua. Yāwshu means in Aramaic/Phoenician “YĀW saves”, and Yāw is known as the Canaanite/Phoenician god of water mentioned in the Ugaritic tablets. Yehoshua which means YHWH saves is a Judeo-Christian attempt to link Jesus to the Jews. Besides, YHWH is a Jewish derivation from the Phoenician Yāw, yet with a different understanding. The Phoenician Yāw is considered as one of the Elohim, or sons of Ēl, hence, we would not be surprised to find Jesus called in Matthew as Immanu-Ēl, which means “Ēl with us”.
    It is a very delicate subject and I kindly invite u to have a look at this book trailer. It will somehow give you an idea about who was the real historical Jesus that the Judeo-Christian culture is trying to hide.
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7zwA8b_A4qI

    Shalam,
    kk

  92. El Koussa says:

    Of course Jesus was not a Jew. His real name is Yāwshu not Yehoshua. Yāwshu means in Aramaic/Phoenician “YĀW saves”, and Yāw is known as the Canaanite/Phoenician god of water mentioned in the Ugaritic tablets. Yehoshua which means YHWH saves is a Judeo-Christian attempt to link Jesus to the Jews. Besides, YHWH is a Jewish derivation from the Phoenician Yāw, yet with a different understanding. The Phoenician Yāw is considered as one of the Elohim, or sons of Ēl, hence, we would not be surprised to find Jesus called in Matthew as Immanu-Ēl, which means “Ēl with us”.
    It is a very delicate subject and I kindly invite u to have a look at this book trailer. It will somehow give you an idea about who was the real historical Jesus that the Judeo-Christian culture is trying to hide.
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7zwA8b_A4qI
    Shalam,
    kk

  93. aswanash alehim says:

    Yh ha waH , YH means Im am Life, Ne ha waH, means i am not life (creator), Ne ha wah ne wah ne means i am not second and not first, im third

    imri

  94. aswanash alehim says:

    Yh ha waH , YH means Im am Life, Ne ha waH, means i am not life (creator), Ne ha wah ne wah ne means i am not second and not first, im third
    imri

  95. luckylarrysilverstein says:

    PROPHET JESUS OF NAZARETH IS INCOMPARABLE
    More than 2000 years ago there was a man born contrary to the laws of nature.
    He was rich, yet for our sake he became poor. This man lived in poverty and was raised in obscurity. He received no college education and never possessed wealth or widespread influence. He never traveled extensively. He seldom crossed the boundary of the country in which he lived.
    But this man’s life has changed the course of history.
    In infancy he startled a king. In childhood he amazed Jewish Talmudic scholars. In manhood he ruled the course of nature—walked on stormy waves and hushed the raging sea to sleep.
    He healed multitudes without medicine and made no charge for his services. He never practiced psychiatry. Yet he has healed more broken hearts than all the doctors far and near.
    He never wrote a book. Yet his life has inspired more books than any other man. He never wrote a song. Yet he has furnished the theme for more songs than all songwriters combined.
    He never founded a college, but all the schools put together cannot boast of having as many students. He never marshaled an army. He never drafted a soldier or fired a gun. Yet no leader ever had more rebels surrender to him without a shot fired.
    Herod could not kill him. He could not be seduced by evil. His enemies could not destroy him. The grave could not hold him. After three days he rose from the dead, alive forevermore!

    HE IS THE EVER PERFECT OBEDIENT PROPHET. HE IS JESUS MESSIAH

    This man stands forth upon the highest pinnacle of heavenly glory, proclaimed by God, as a True Prophet!

    I THANK JESUS FOR MUHAMMAD!

    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF EVIL!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF HATE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF DEPRAVITY!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF DARKNESS!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF SENSUALITY!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRUE PROPHET & A FALSE ONE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF IGNORANCE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN THE FACE OF HEDONISM.
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT HAVE SEE A DEMON IN HUMAN FORM.

    MUHAMMAD WAS THE MOON!
    JESUS IS THE SUN!
    THE MOON CAN ONLY REFLECT THE LIGHT OF THE SUN!
    THE SUN GIVES LIFE!

    JESUS IS THE TRUTH.
    HE IS THE TRUE PROPHET!
    HIS WORDS GIVE LIFE!

    MUHAMMAD WAS THE LIE!
    MUHAMMAD WAS A FALSE PROPHET!
    HIS WORDS BRING DEATH!

    JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH & THE LIFE!
    JESUS IS NOT GOD, HE IS FROM GOD!
    JESUS IS THE WAY TO THE LIFE FORCE – THE CREATOR!
    JESUS BRINGS LIFE, EVEN TO THE DEAD!

    MAY THE LIFE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

  96. luckylarrysilverstein says:

    PROPHET JESUS OF NAZARETH IS INCOMPARABLE
    More than 2000 years ago there was a man born contrary to the laws of nature.
    He was rich, yet for our sake he became poor. This man lived in poverty and was raised in obscurity. He received no college education and never possessed wealth or widespread influence. He never traveled extensively. He seldom crossed the boundary of the country in which he lived.
    But this man’s life has changed the course of history.
    In infancy he startled a king. In childhood he amazed Jewish Talmudic scholars. In manhood he ruled the course of nature—walked on stormy waves and hushed the raging sea to sleep.
    He healed multitudes without medicine and made no charge for his services. He never practiced psychiatry. Yet he has healed more broken hearts than all the doctors far and near.
    He never wrote a book. Yet his life has inspired more books than any other man. He never wrote a song. Yet he has furnished the theme for more songs than all songwriters combined.
    He never founded a college, but all the schools put together cannot boast of having as many students. He never marshaled an army. He never drafted a soldier or fired a gun. Yet no leader ever had more rebels surrender to him without a shot fired.
    Herod could not kill him. He could not be seduced by evil. His enemies could not destroy him. The grave could not hold him. After three days he rose from the dead, alive forevermore!
    HE IS THE EVER PERFECT OBEDIENT PROPHET. HE IS JESUS MESSIAH
    This man stands forth upon the highest pinnacle of heavenly glory, proclaimed by God, as a True Prophet!
    I THANK JESUS FOR MUHAMMAD!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF EVIL!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF HATE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF DEPRAVITY!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF DARKNESS!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF SENSUALITY!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRUE PROPHET & A FALSE ONE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF IGNORANCE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN THE FACE OF HEDONISM.
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT HAVE SEE A DEMON IN HUMAN FORM.
    MUHAMMAD WAS THE MOON!
    JESUS IS THE SUN!
    THE MOON CAN ONLY REFLECT THE LIGHT OF THE SUN!
    THE SUN GIVES LIFE!
    JESUS IS THE TRUTH.
    HE IS THE TRUE PROPHET!
    HIS WORDS GIVE LIFE!
    MUHAMMAD WAS THE LIE!
    MUHAMMAD WAS A FALSE PROPHET!
    HIS WORDS BRING DEATH!
    JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH & THE LIFE!
    JESUS IS NOT GOD, HE IS FROM GOD!
    JESUS IS THE WAY TO THE LIFE FORCE – THE CREATOR!
    JESUS BRINGS LIFE, EVEN TO THE DEAD!
    MAY THE LIFE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

  97. aswanash alehim says:

    abrham ish the best priest of my father YH

    rev 19:11-19

    im

    aswanash alehim

  98. aswanash alehim says:

    abrham ish the best priest of my father YH
    rev 19:11-19
    im
    aswanash alehim

  99. Kurt says:

    The Promised Seed
    Over two thousand years after man’s expulsion from Paradise, Jehovah told his faithful servant Abraham: “I shall surely multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens . . . and by means of your seed all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves due to the fact that you have listened to my voice.” (Genesis 22:17, 18) This was more than a promise; Jehovah framed it in the form of a legal covenant and backed it by his unbreakable oath. (Genesis 17:1, 2; Hebrews 6:13-15) How remarkable that the Sovereign Lord actually contracted to bless mankind!
    The Abrahamic covenant revealed that the promised Seed would come as a human, for he would be a descendant of Abraham. But who would he be? In time, Jehovah revealed that of Abraham’s sons, Isaac would be a forebear of the Seed. Of Isaac’s two sons, Jacob was selected. (Genesis 21:12; 28:13, 14) Later, Jacob uttered these prophetic words over one of his 12 sons: “The scepter will not turn aside from Judah, neither the commander’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh [“He to Whom It Belongs”] comes; and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong.” (Genesis 49:10) Now it was known that the Seed would be a king, one who descended from Judah!
    http://www.theocraticcollector.com/The_Promised_Seed.pdf

  100. Kurt says:

    The Promised Seed
    Over two thousand years after man’s expulsion from Paradise, Jehovah told his faithful servant Abraham: “I shall surely multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens . . . and by means of your seed all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves due to the fact that you have listened to my voice.” (Genesis 22:17, 18) This was more than a promise; Jehovah framed it in the form of a legal covenant and backed it by his unbreakable oath. (Genesis 17:1, 2; Hebrews 6:13-15) How remarkable that the Sovereign Lord actually contracted to bless mankind!
    The Abrahamic covenant revealed that the promised Seed would come as a human, for he would be a descendant of Abraham. But who would he be? In time, Jehovah revealed that of Abraham’s sons, Isaac would be a forebear of the Seed. Of Isaac’s two sons, Jacob was selected. (Genesis 21:12; 28:13, 14) Later, Jacob uttered these prophetic words over one of his 12 sons: “The scepter will not turn aside from Judah, neither the commander’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh [“He to Whom It Belongs”] comes; and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong.” (Genesis 49:10) Now it was known that the Seed would be a king, one who descended from Judah!
    http://www.theocraticcollector.com/The_Promised_Seed.pdf

  101. aswanash alehim says:

    word shalom is wrong understood in hebrews, and in bible YH said to jews sawioirs jehuda and kabbamel, who sved yishrael from egypt with aron and mosesh

    what YH said wash

    eresh halom sah nektash seh im alehim

    im

  102. aswanash alehim says:

    word shalom is wrong understood in hebrews, and in bible YH said to jews sawioirs jehuda and kabbamel, who sved yishrael from egypt with aron and mosesh
    what YH said wash
    eresh halom sah nektash seh im alehim
    im

  103. aswanash alehim says:

    to kootzie

    iesus had light hair and blue eyes

    alehim not any jew

    and this is to hebrew popes too

    im

    aswanash alehim

    rev 19:11-19

  104. aswanash alehim says:

    to kootzie
    iesus had light hair and blue eyes
    alehim not any jew
    and this is to hebrew popes too
    im
    aswanash alehim
    rev 19:11-19

  105. aswanash alehim says:

    and now im change climate, early spring to north america and bad winter to europe especially to france and germany, and warm to mongolia and north asia

    im

    aswanash alehim

  106. aswanash alehim says:

    and now im change climate, early spring to north america and bad winter to europe especially to france and germany, and warm to mongolia and north asia
    im
    aswanash alehim

  107. aswanash alehim says:

    im asked for my father YH, to get tattosh soon, and they came, and yoy will see those face to face in april 2014

    im

    aswanash alehim

  108. aswanash alehim says:

    im asked for my father YH, to get tattosh soon, and they came, and yoy will see those face to face in april 2014
    im
    aswanash alehim

  109. aswanash alehim says:

    impashnektash seh alehim, pashnektash se ma ashna YH,

    tah ashwel Gapriel

    sah seh wetshkanesh et sehamel seh YH

    alehim seh alehim, elehim seh YH,sahamel seh shnektanesh

    tah terra Son of Man

    ta Gapriel

    Michael Schumacher et Miina Maasola

    ne ta hane, ta eshna

    imparkneshkanesh seh sahnetka et

    Imanuel Kristo ev Eloh

    sawanesh Gapriel

    sah seh sah

    im

    aswanash alehim

  110. aswanash alehim says:

    impashnektash seh alehim, pashnektash se ma ashna YH,
    tah ashwel Gapriel
    sah seh wetshkanesh et sehamel seh YH
    alehim seh alehim, elehim seh YH,sahamel seh shnektanesh
    tah terra Son of Man
    ta Gapriel
    Michael Schumacher et Miina Maasola
    ne ta hane, ta eshna
    imparkneshkanesh seh sahnetka et
    Imanuel Kristo ev Eloh
    sawanesh Gapriel
    sah seh sah
    im
    aswanash alehim

  111. aswanash alehim says:

    education doesn’t matter if yoyr god YH is in yoy, every moment he is with yoy, and want to know how much yoy can bear, and when yoy will broke , he help yoy, he educate yoy that yoy are as humble as he is, only humble artist can create universe and all in it, because he doesn’t care if the result of creation is much better than he is

    im

    aswanash alehim

  112. aswanash alehim says:

    education doesn’t matter if yoyr god YH is in yoy, every moment he is with yoy, and want to know how much yoy can bear, and when yoy will broke , he help yoy, he educate yoy that yoy are as humble as he is, only humble artist can create universe and all in it, because he doesn’t care if the result of creation is much better than he is
    im
    aswanash alehim

  113. kootzie says:

    At the risk of sounding arrogant, seems pretty obvious to me
    then again I don’t have sufficient education and/or credentials
    to cause me to overthink this and adhere to some comfortable position…

    Jesus was a Jew, hung out with Jews, was referred to as rabbi by some,
    knew the Jewish scriptures, and called the hierarchy to task for their moral
    ethical religious failings. That alone was enough to get himself executed.

    The kicker, the essential piece of what Jesus taught is that God is not a
    stern, angry, distant, being who gives forgiveness to His wretched sinful creatures
    only through sufficient ritual devotion / legalistic obedience / self-immolation…

    He taught that people can have a direct relationship with a loving God.

    The organizational construct referred to as “Christianity” is really Judaism 2.0
    Sure there were set-changes, new scripts, a death-defying-superhero whose
    death was demanded by the same old judgemental God1.0, and a new logo/brand
    but the same kind of control-freak-structure of intermediaries who would put in a good word
    for us with the big guy seeing as how we were far too evil to approach HIM without getting fried
    to a crisp was retained. (With the exception of the Creation Spirituality gang who really got it.)

    The assertion that Christ was a Christian is really rich…
    I mean, who put the “Christ” into Christian ?
    and who promptly took it out?

    OK, did I miss anything important?

  114. kootzie says:

    At the risk of sounding arrogant, seems pretty obvious to me
    then again I don’t have sufficient education and/or credentials
    to cause me to overthink this and adhere to some comfortable position…
    Jesus was a Jew, hung out with Jews, was referred to as rabbi by some,
    knew the Jewish scriptures, and called the hierarchy to task for their moral
    ethical religious failings. That alone was enough to get himself executed.
    The kicker, the essential piece of what Jesus taught is that God is not a
    stern, angry, distant, being who gives forgiveness to His wretched sinful creatures
    only through sufficient ritual devotion / legalistic obedience / self-immolation…
    He taught that people can have a direct relationship with a loving God.
    The organizational construct referred to as “Christianity” is really Judaism 2.0
    Sure there were set-changes, new scripts, a death-defying-superhero whose
    death was demanded by the same old judgemental God1.0, and a new logo/brand
    but the same kind of control-freak-structure of intermediaries who would put in a good word
    for us with the big guy seeing as how we were far too evil to approach HIM without getting fried
    to a crisp was retained. (With the exception of the Creation Spirituality gang who really got it.)
    The assertion that Christ was a Christian is really rich…
    I mean, who put the “Christ” into Christian ?
    and who promptly took it out?
    OK, did I miss anything important?

  115. aswanash alehim says:

    iesus wash alehim

    none of yoy

    im

  116. aswanash alehim says:

    iesus wash alehim
    none of yoy
    im

  117. Was Jesus a Jew? | Biblical Backgrounds and Archaeology says:

    […] Biblical Archaeology Society: Was Jesus a Jew? Some people claim that Jesus was a Christian. Some have claimed that he was an Aryan Christian. But in recent decades scholars have been returning to ancient historical settings and discovering the Jewish Jesus. Anthony J. Saldarini’s article “What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus” cautions against wrenching Jesus out of his Jewish world. […]

  118. Was Jesus a Jew? | Biblical Backgrounds and Archaeology says:

    […] Biblical Archaeology Society: Was Jesus a Jew? Some people claim that Jesus was a Christian. Some have claimed that he was an Aryan Christian. But in recent decades scholars have been returning to ancient historical settings and discovering the Jewish Jesus. Anthony J. Saldarini’s article “What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus” cautions against wrenching Jesus out of his Jewish world. […]

  119. Ken Smith says:

    When we try to erase the Jewishness of Jesus we in fact creating our own God. It should be of no surprise that people want their own version of a messiah. Jesus came to the Jews first, but never forget that God the Father loves the entire world.

  120. Ken Smith says:

    When we try to erase the Jewishness of Jesus we in fact creating our own God. It should be of no surprise that people want their own version of a messiah. Jesus came to the Jews first, but never forget that God the Father loves the entire world.

  121. Jeanie C. Crain says:

    It is difficult not to agree with the conclusion of “Was Jesus a Jew”:

    To wrench Jesus out of his Jewish world destroys Jesus and destroys Christianity, the religion that grew out of his teachings. Even Jesus’ most familiar role as Christ is a Jewish role. If Christians leave the concrete realities of Jesus’ life and of the history of Israel in favor of a mythic, universal, spiritual Jesus and an otherworldly kingdom of God, they deny their origins in Israel, their history, and the God who has loved and protected Israel and the church.

    It is, as Schweitzer, a pioneer in historical Jesus studies, concludes, it is the inevitable swing of the pendulum to return to the man in his own day, setting, and culture.

    It [study of the life of Jesus] set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. It loosed the bands by which He had been riveted for centuries to the stony rocks of ecclesiastical doctrine, and rejoiced to see life and movement coming into the figure once more, and the historical Jesus advancing, as it seemed, to meet it. But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own. What surprised and dismayed the theology of the last forty years was that, despite all forced and arbitrary interpretations, it could not keep Him in our time, but had to let Him go. He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

    He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: “Follow thou me!” and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfil for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.
    http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/schweitzer/chapter20.html

    Pasted from

  122. Jeanie C. Crain says:

    It is difficult not to agree with the conclusion of “Was Jesus a Jew”:
    To wrench Jesus out of his Jewish world destroys Jesus and destroys Christianity, the religion that grew out of his teachings. Even Jesus’ most familiar role as Christ is a Jewish role. If Christians leave the concrete realities of Jesus’ life and of the history of Israel in favor of a mythic, universal, spiritual Jesus and an otherworldly kingdom of God, they deny their origins in Israel, their history, and the God who has loved and protected Israel and the church.
    It is, as Schweitzer, a pioneer in historical Jesus studies, concludes, it is the inevitable swing of the pendulum to return to the man in his own day, setting, and culture.
    It [study of the life of Jesus] set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. It loosed the bands by which He had been riveted for centuries to the stony rocks of ecclesiastical doctrine, and rejoiced to see life and movement coming into the figure once more, and the historical Jesus advancing, as it seemed, to meet it. But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own. What surprised and dismayed the theology of the last forty years was that, despite all forced and arbitrary interpretations, it could not keep Him in our time, but had to let Him go. He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.
    He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: “Follow thou me!” and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfil for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.
    http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/schweitzer/chapter20.html
    Pasted from

  123. Gerald Linnins says:

    When Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well, SHE spoke to Jesus and asked, “How is it that YOU being a JEW ask me for a drink?” She obviously recognized him as a Jew. Additionally, reading through the Gospel of John, you see Jesus participating in a multitude of Jewish festivals, attending synagogue, even celebrating Hannakuk – not one of the Lord’s original seven feasts but a totally Jewish celebration of their rescue by Queen Esther from the hatred of Haman.
    Jesus was a Jew. And frequently we are told we are IN HIM…also, we are told by Paul Gentiles have been “grafted in” to Israel not the other way around. We should glory in our roots AND in the tremendous growth and outreach and fruit of all the branches in Christ.

  124. W. Ron Hess says:

    It is good that we question the “given” theology of modern Christianity and look at Jesus in his time — not the mythical time of “Luke,” “John,” and “Acts of the Apostles,” but the time more closely reflected in “Matthew” and “Mark” (stripped of their post-4th century emendations) plus what archaeology can tell. More than that, there was an “Ebionite” sect of Judaeo-Christians who existed until they were persecuted first under Bar-Kokhba in circa 130 AD (for not accepting him as Messiah), and then stamped out as a heresy to near extinction by the successors to Constantine in the late 4th century. The Ebionites believed they were founded by Jesus himself, with their early leaders Jesus’ own kin and disciples, such as James the Just and Peter. They emphasized John the Baptist and regarded Jesus as a human prophet (as opposd to a pagan divinity). Only through the cult of Saul of Tarsus/Paul did Jesus acquire gentile attributes of divinity, and this remained a scorned heretical view for the first 4 decades or more after the crucifixion. When the Jerusalem Church (which was often referred to as “The Poor” in the gospels) was forced to flee to the Jordanian desert during the 70 AD first revolt, presumably becoming the early Ebionites, the Paulists who were scattered throughout the Empire essentially inherited the Christian movement by default — largely because they were eager to separate themselves from Judaism (and the two Jewish revolts) and to accomodate to Rome. As an endnote, Mohammed’s close relative, follower, and mentor Waraqa Ibn Nawfal is said to have been an Ebionite monk, and thus the Ebionite view of Jesus and of other matters seems to have influenced the Koran. Could the Koran be truer to the real Jesus than the Paulist one we have in the “received” New Testament? W. Ron Hess ([email protected])

  125. Gear Clark says:

    Also as for the roles and relationships between Peter & Paul (Kefa & Shaul) they are complex and interwoven. Paul was in submission to the leadership in Jerusalem which Peter was a part of see Acts 15. Also it was Peter who saw the first Gentile convert to Yeshua, Cornelius see Acts 10, which has nothing to do with food btw. All previous non ethnic believers had been proselytes to Judaism, see Acts 6:5, Nikolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. These 4 men all represented types of people who had 2 things in common, they believed in Yeshua by faith turning from dead works, and received the Holy Spirit. The four types of followers were like Peter -Jewish and living in the land of Israel, Paul – Jewish and from Tarsus a Roman citizen, Nikolaus a Greek or Arab from Antioch who had made full conversion to Judaism including circumcision before expressing faith in Yeshua, and Cornelius a righteous Gentile who loved the people of Israel, the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius before Peter could even give the invitation! Wow!
    Soon we meet a 5th type of person who would be welcomed to the family of Yeshua, Timothy born of Jewish Mother and a Greek or Roman father, ( mixed marriage, do we have any of those today?)
    Isn’t interesting Paul circumcises Timothy in Acts 16 after receiving a ruling that Gentiles need not be circumcised just prior in chapter 15, clearly Paul saw Timothy as being Jewish. As you see though the blood of Yeshua does tare the veil it does not remove our individual distinctions but rather makes away for all of us to draw near to God. Each person has a background differing from others but Yeshua is the way to the Father no matter how diverse our circumstances.

  126. Gear Clark says:

    Was Jesus a Jew, He is the King of the Jews! Of the seed of David of the seed of Abraham, see Matt ch 1. for this obvious answer.
    The word Christian is a clerical error in later copies of the Apostolic or Messianic writings which ever you prefer. The terms ” Old & New Testaments” are also figments of revisionist gentile replacement theologists. Please see Copernicus and the Jews by Daniel Gruber. The correct term is covenant, not testament! The bible is full of covenants the “New Covenant” found in Jeremiah 31:33 builds upon all those other covenants ( promises) given earlier and in no way replaces them. Thus the land by God’s promise still belongs to the descendants of Jacob and the Kingship to the seed of David. If these covenants are not honored by God what makes you think that the New Covenant offered through the blood of Yeshua is trustworthy? See Hebrews 10, and verses 10-19 specifically.
    As for the covenant of the law/ instruction (Torah) it is eternal as Yeshua said in Matthew 5:17-18 unless heaven and earth has passed away?
    Christians need to quit misrepresenting what Yeshua said and did. He was completely Jewish meeting all the righteous requirements of the law! What He railed against was two things the elevating of traditions of men to be equalled with the commandments of God and those who pretended to keep outwardly while internally their thoughts were evil!
    Christians should read Romans 11 and pray for the Jewish people in Israel and the nations. Ask God to give you the heart He has for His people that He has promised to restore in the last days. Salt can flavor or make bitter.

  127. WILLIAM BOONE says:

    Have you ever noticed how much ideology controls a supposed “science” like Biblical study and archeology? First part of the century everybody looking for the big Hook-Up with Eleusinian Mysteries or other Hellenistic. Last past of last century more and more scholarys guilt-tripped by being of an Anglo ethnos that murdered Jews–thus, repent! Change your studies course. Now a new form of accent on “Jewish” studies: to attack anything Israeli (Jewish immigrants who bought but mostly terrorized Palastinians into selling cut-rate, then, and now, active harrassment, theft of their olive trees, home, rebuilding on stolen space the Western-style Israeli luxury homes for Jews only. Is this really fair? Is it time for another ideology?

  128. Chris Price says:

    There is no question that Jesus was born a Jew but did he live as a Jew? Jesus came to fulfil the Law so he had to be the perfect Jew, better than the Pharisees or any Jew before him. The question we then need to ask is, did he dispense with his Jewishness once he had completed his ministry and, in a sense, he did because he broke down the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile. Paul says, in Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile. The important thing is that He made peace between the two.
    Crucially, Paul says that the Jews own the legacy and only when they are brought into the fold will the Gentiles have the full measure of the truth. Rediscovering the Jewish Jesus clearly gives us a fuller picture of who the historical Jesus was and what he meant by what he taught.
    It seems to me that Paul translated the Gospel into ‘Christian’ beautifully as did the other letter writers but Jesus was speaking to Jews as a rabbi, not to Christians as a pastor.
    Much of Christian theology that we consider orthodox is a modern and taught in the light of Christian tradition. Not only do we need to read the Gospels in the light of the OT but also in the post-exilic culture into which Jesus was born and in which he was taught, lived and breathed.

  129. Susan Fischer says:

    The question was asked in this article if Jesus was a Jew and also asked if Jesus was a Christian. He was first a Jew but you cannot ask if Jesus or Yeshua was a Christian because the word Christian means “CHRIST IN”, and could only be used after He died and the Gift of holy spirit was given. You cannot have CHRIST IN until it was available. He had to die first. So how can you ask if Jesus was a Christian?
    It is only used three times in the New Testament. Acts 11:26 of which end of the verse states ” And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch”,. The other two are in Acts 26:28 and 1st Peter 4:16.
    That word Christian (CHRIST IN) was not used or available to use until He died and was raised from the dead and then He Jesus commanded his Apostles to wait and not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father (God) for the Power from on High on the day of Pentacost.
    Then those that waited for the Promise received the Gift of God and CHRIST IN which equals Christian.
    This gift is a whole new creation making for a whole new man spiritually and inwardly. That is why it states in Colossians 3:10,11 And have put on the new man (new creation) which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him( God) that created him(Jesus): where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian,bond nor free, but Christ is all, and in all.
    This is called the Church of God.
    1st Corinthians 10:31,32 is clear on the subject and states “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the Glory of God, Give none offence, neither to the Jews,(those still under the law and will be judged by their works of the law) nor to the Gentiles(unbelieving nation) nor to the Church of God.(those that believe and have “Christ In” and are a new creation and no longer under the law but saved by Grace and not by works.)
    Susan

  130. Susan Fischer says:

    The question was asked in this article if Jesus was a Jew and also asked if Jesus was a Christian. He was first a Jew but you cannot ask if Jesus or Yeshua was a Christian because the word Christian means “CHRIST IN”, and could only be used after He died and the Gift of holy spirit was given. You cannot have CHRIST IN until it was available. He had to die first. So how can you ask if Jesus was a Christian?
    It is only used three times in the New Testament. Acts 11:26 of which end of the verse states ” And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch”,. The other two are in Acts 26:28 and 1st Peter 4:16.
    That word Christian (CHRIST IN) was not used or available to use until He died and was raised from the dead and then He Jesus commanded his Apostles to wait and not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father (God) for the Power from on High on the day of Pentacost.
    Then those that waited for the Promise received the Gift of God and CHRIST IN which equals Christian.
    This gift is a whole new creation making for a whole new man spiritually and inwardly. That is why it states in Colossians 3:10,11 And have put on the new man (new creation) which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him( God) that created him(Jesus): where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian,bond nor free, but Christ is all, and in all.
    This is called the Church of God.
    1st Corinthians 10:31,32 is clear on the subject and states “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the Glory of God, Give none offence, neither to the Jews,(those still under the law and will be judged by their works of the law) nor to the Gentiles(unbelieving nation) nor to the Church of God.(those that believe and have “Christ In” and are a new creation and no longer under the law but saved by Grace and not by works.)
    Susan

  131. DANIEL Paul K says:

    Jesus is the most misunderstood person whoever lived on earth. Jews and Christians agree on one thing about Jesus that Jesus claimed he is the messiah. But the most astonishing truth about Jesus is that Jesus didn’t claim he is the messiah. Not only that Jesus told the Jews that they should not believe any individual who claim he is the messiah. He told the Jews no individual would come as the messiah, who or what would come is the kingdom of god.

    Jesus told the Jews to always remain as Jews facing all the persecutions awaiting them and prepared to accept the Kingdom since it is not known when it will come. The contemporary Jews expected Jesus is their messiah but were disappointed that He didn’t overthrow the Romans and declare himself King, like the Messiah was supposed to do. So they rejected Jesus saying he is a failed messiah and failed to understand his message.

    On the other hand, some the Jews found their messiah in Jesus and interpreted words of Jesus and Bible in such a way to make others also to believe Jesus is the messiah and son of God. The Jews who say Jesus is the failed messiah and the Jews later became Christians who believe and preach Jesus is the Christ and son of God both went wrong in understanding the message of Jesus.

    The word messiah has no such meaning as “Savior“. Messiah simply means “anointed one”. But when the Jews started to give a meaning “savior” for the word messiah there they started to give wrong interpretation of Bible words. Yahweh is the only savior of Israel and there is no other savior for Israel according to Bible.

    Jewish belief in a messiah in the sense “savior king” lies in the promise God gave to David. In fact the promise God gave to David is conditional one. And sons of David many times failed to fulfill that condition. so God is not bound to keep his promise. But Jews inadvertently believe that the promise God gave to David is an unconditional one and that belief led the Jews to believe God is bound to provide them a super king “Messiah” from the sons of David. This wrong interpretation of Bible words and belief in a Christ culminated in Christian religion.

    Hence a different interpretation of New Testament is necessary to reveal the real Jesus who questioned the Jewish tradition and who prophesied no individual would come as messiah but who or what would come is the kingdom of God.

    I have written a different interpretation for New Testament titled ” Truth Hidden in the Gospels Revealed “. It is not yet published. I would like to present it before Bible scholars for their examination and would like to get their constructive criticism. If anybody is willing to help me please contact me in the Email address:-

    [email protected]

  132. DANIEL Paul K says:

    Jesus is the most misunderstood person whoever lived on earth. Jews and Christians agree on one thing about Jesus that Jesus claimed he is the messiah. But the most astonishing truth about Jesus is that Jesus didn’t claim he is the messiah. Not only that Jesus told the Jews that they should not believe any individual who claim he is the messiah. He told the Jews no individual would come as the messiah, who or what would come is the kingdom of god.
    Jesus told the Jews to always remain as Jews facing all the persecutions awaiting them and prepared to accept the Kingdom since it is not known when it will come. The contemporary Jews expected Jesus is their messiah but were disappointed that He didn’t overthrow the Romans and declare himself King, like the Messiah was supposed to do. So they rejected Jesus saying he is a failed messiah and failed to understand his message.
    On the other hand, some the Jews found their messiah in Jesus and interpreted words of Jesus and Bible in such a way to make others also to believe Jesus is the messiah and son of God. The Jews who say Jesus is the failed messiah and the Jews later became Christians who believe and preach Jesus is the Christ and son of God both went wrong in understanding the message of Jesus.
    The word messiah has no such meaning as “Savior“. Messiah simply means “anointed one”. But when the Jews started to give a meaning “savior” for the word messiah there they started to give wrong interpretation of Bible words. Yahweh is the only savior of Israel and there is no other savior for Israel according to Bible.
    Jewish belief in a messiah in the sense “savior king” lies in the promise God gave to David. In fact the promise God gave to David is conditional one. And sons of David many times failed to fulfill that condition. so God is not bound to keep his promise. But Jews inadvertently believe that the promise God gave to David is an unconditional one and that belief led the Jews to believe God is bound to provide them a super king “Messiah” from the sons of David. This wrong interpretation of Bible words and belief in a Christ culminated in Christian religion.
    Hence a different interpretation of New Testament is necessary to reveal the real Jesus who questioned the Jewish tradition and who prophesied no individual would come as messiah but who or what would come is the kingdom of God.
    I have written a different interpretation for New Testament titled ” Truth Hidden in the Gospels Revealed “. It is not yet published. I would like to present it before Bible scholars for their examination and would like to get their constructive criticism. If anybody is willing to help me please contact me in the Email address:-
    [email protected]

  133. Paul Hogg says:

    Shalom All,
    BTW there was no person called jesus christ at the time the Messiah was on the Earth, his name was and is and Always will be Yeshua. Yeshua read The Torah and Kept the 7th Day of Creation as a weekly reminder of who Created Everything, Yeshua would have also kept All the Feasts and Festivals from the Torah tooo. I guess If we want to follow the 1 and Only Messiah then we aught to follow the Right 1. Constantine was a Political manipulator not a Believer in the 1True Creator. Yeshua stated The Truth Shall Set Us Free.
    Paul NZ : )

  134. Paul Hogg says:

    Shalom All,
    BTW there was no person called jesus christ at the time the Messiah was on the Earth, his name was and is and Always will be Yeshua. Yeshua read The Torah and Kept the 7th Day of Creation as a weekly reminder of who Created Everything, Yeshua would have also kept All the Feasts and Festivals from the Torah tooo. I guess If we want to follow the 1 and Only Messiah then we aught to follow the Right 1. Constantine was a Political manipulator not a Believer in the 1True Creator. Yeshua stated The Truth Shall Set Us Free.
    Paul NZ : )

  135. Perry Lassiter says:

    No one so far has mentioned the obvious fact that the NT writers native language was Aramaic, closely akin to Hebrew in which they must also have been fluent. Though writing in Greek, they were thinking in Hebrew, so much so that Black translated Matthew into Aramaic. One of the more complicated questions centers on whether this or that Greek word carries Helennic or Hebrew background, perhaps with logos as the prime example. Taken in Greek, it attacks Philo’s idea of the logos being a mad scioentist sort of power that accidentally mixed spirit and matt and made the world, Taken as Hebrew dabhar, it connects with God’s speaking the world into being and the repeated “thus says the Lord.” Jewishness was as much a part of Jesus as was the air he breathed. Some small Greek NT’s have OT quotes in boldface. Looking at any gospel page you can easily see how many of Jesus’s pronouncements were OT quotes!

  136. Perry Lassiter says:

    No one so far has mentioned the obvious fact that the NT writers native language was Aramaic, closely akin to Hebrew in which they must also have been fluent. Though writing in Greek, they were thinking in Hebrew, so much so that Black translated Matthew into Aramaic. One of the more complicated questions centers on whether this or that Greek word carries Helennic or Hebrew background, perhaps with logos as the prime example. Taken in Greek, it attacks Philo’s idea of the logos being a mad scioentist sort of power that accidentally mixed spirit and matt and made the world, Taken as Hebrew dabhar, it connects with God’s speaking the world into being and the repeated “thus says the Lord.” Jewishness was as much a part of Jesus as was the air he breathed. Some small Greek NT’s have OT quotes in boldface. Looking at any gospel page you can easily see how many of Jesus’s pronouncements were OT quotes!

  137. Frank Hamrick says:

    I was raised in a Christian home, my Dad was a pastor by the time I was 6. I personally accepted “Jesus” as my Lord and Savior when I was 5. Since that time I have given my life to the study of the OT & NT. Not for one moment have I ever thought of Jesus as anything other than Jewish. I don’t know how any “Christian” could see Jesus as anything other than the promised Messiah of Israel, fulfilling all of the requirements for the Messiah, and bringing to fulfillment all that the Jewish law pointed towards. Was Jesus Jewish? Of course. Who would think otherwise?

  138. Frank Hamrick says:

    I was raised in a Christian home, my Dad was a pastor by the time I was 6. I personally accepted “Jesus” as my Lord and Savior when I was 5. Since that time I have given my life to the study of the OT & NT. Not for one moment have I ever thought of Jesus as anything other than Jewish. I don’t know how any “Christian” could see Jesus as anything other than the promised Messiah of Israel, fulfilling all of the requirements for the Messiah, and bringing to fulfillment all that the Jewish law pointed towards. Was Jesus Jewish? Of course. Who would think otherwise?

  139. CLAYTON STONER says:

    Only in academia would they even have to come up with a question like this……

  140. CLAYTON STONER says:

    Only in academia would they even have to come up with a question like this……

  141. Paul Shunamon says:

    Was there really any question?
    Paul S

  142. Paul Shunamon says:

    Was there really any question?

    Paul S

  143. Chavoux Luyt says:

    PS. I find it very interesting that Alfred Edersheim in his “The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah“, tries his best to show the uniqueness of Jesus in the first century context and yet cannot remove Him from his Jewishness.

  144. Chavoux Luyt says:

    PS. I find it very interesting that Alfred Edersheim in his “The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah“, tries his best to show the uniqueness of Jesus in the first century context and yet cannot remove Him from his Jewishness.

  145. Chavoux Luyt says:

    Of course Jesus was Jew! I find it difficult to imagine anybody reading the New Testament without realizing this. Even the so-called “gentile” Paul/Saul identifies himself as a Hebrew of Hebrews of the tribe of Benjamin (Philipians 3)(b.t..w. the name change Saul -> Paul didn’t occur after his conversion, but only when he started to preach to the gentiles (in Greek), suggesting that it was simply his Greek name in contrast to his Hebrew name… cf. also Mark John (Markos, Jochanan Acts 15:37)). Moreover, the very term “Christ” (Annointed) is simply a translation of “Mashiach” and have no meaning in a getile context. It can only be understood in the context of the promises given to the Jews in their Scriptures.
    @Gerald: There are pretty good arguments to be made that the term in the context of the gospels refer to the Judeans (the Jews living in the Southern area) in contrast to the Galileans. I would suggest that a major reason for the gentile Christians later distancing themselves from the Jews were the result of the Jewish rebellions (esp. the Bar Kochba rebellion which probably estranged even the Jewish followers of Jesus as Messiah). The Christians were already being persecuted for turning their backs on the pagan gods (and worshiping the God of Israel instead), no need to appear to sympathise with a rebellion as well!

  146. Chavoux Luyt says:

    Of course Jesus was Jew! I find it difficult to imagine anybody reading the New Testament without realizing this. Even the so-called “gentile” Paul/Saul identifies himself as a Hebrew of Hebrews of the tribe of Benjamin (Philipians 3)(b.t..w. the name change Saul -> Paul didn’t occur after his conversion, but only when he started to preach to the gentiles (in Greek), suggesting that it was simply his Greek name in contrast to his Hebrew name… cf. also Mark John (Markos, Jochanan Acts 15:37)). Moreover, the very term “Christ” (Annointed) is simply a translation of “Mashiach” and have no meaning in a getile context. It can only be understood in the context of the promises given to the Jews in their Scriptures.

    @Gerald: There are pretty good arguments to be made that the term in the context of the gospels refer to the Judeans (the Jews living in the Southern area) in contrast to the Galileans. I would suggest that a major reason for the gentile Christians later distancing themselves from the Jews were the result of the Jewish rebellions (esp. the Bar Kochba rebellion which probably estranged even the Jewish followers of Jesus as Messiah). The Christians were already being persecuted for turning their backs on the pagan gods (and worshiping the God of Israel instead), no need to appear to sympathise with a rebellion as well!

  147. Helen Spalding says:

    Judaism of the first century is not inherently evil, bad, or nasty. It needed refocusing and redirection which Jesus provided as Rabbi.
    Paul makes it abundantly clear that the Gospel is the the Jew first and then the Gentile until all the world acknowledges that Jesus is God with Us. Furthermore, Gentiles are grafted into the stock of faithful Abraham. If we who are grafted in are not faithful in return, we can be loped off just as easily.
    God is not finished w/the Jews nor has He given them to destruction. His word to them and to us in the Torah is plain as are the words in the prophets. Whoever curses Israel will find the curse back on him/herself.
    Without being steeped in the Old Testament, the teaching of Jesus and subsequently of His apostles, incl Paul, makes no sense whatsoever. Jesus was a reformer and did not dismiss Judaism of His day. He had harsh words to the leadership who should know better and did no better! He busted the chops of the hypocrites, not the average Jew. He came to save the lost sheep of Israel — not the Gentiles in His earthly ministry and said as much.
    However, He extended God’s grace to a few Gentiles (goyim) when He was asked in faith.
    The Judaism of His day had become over ritualized. It was the ritual that seemed to matter to the powers that were. Jesus redirected them to the relationship — corporate and individual.
    It is hard for us humans to focus on two things at once — we tend to throw the baby out w/the bath water…we go for the ritual to the exclusion of the relationship. We go whole hog for the personal intense relationship at the expense of an outward focus of ministry. We denigrate ritual in favor of only a powerful relationship.
    Jesus calls us to both in BALANCE. If we are in Christ, we are also part of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If we lose sight of that, we lose sight of why we were grafted in and the corporate nature of our life in Christ suffers damage.
    Jesus practiced the ritual of His day at the Temple in Jerusalem. He practiced the ritual of His day at the local synagogue. He also practiced the relationship and discipline of prayer before He met the needs of the sons and daughters of Israel.
    We are called to emulate His example to the best of our ability. So, Christian, steep yourself in the Old Testament, knowing that is it also a love letter fm God to you as well as to the Jew! Ruth put it well — your people are MY people!

  148. Helen Spalding says:

    Judaism of the first century is not inherently evil, bad, or nasty. It needed refocusing and redirection which Jesus provided as Rabbi.

    Paul makes it abundantly clear that the Gospel is the the Jew first and then the Gentile until all the world acknowledges that Jesus is God with Us. Furthermore, Gentiles are grafted into the stock of faithful Abraham. If we who are grafted in are not faithful in return, we can be loped off just as easily.

    God is not finished w/the Jews nor has He given them to destruction. His word to them and to us in the Torah is plain as are the words in the prophets. Whoever curses Israel will find the curse back on him/herself.

    Without being steeped in the Old Testament, the teaching of Jesus and subsequently of His apostles, incl Paul, makes no sense whatsoever. Jesus was a reformer and did not dismiss Judaism of His day. He had harsh words to the leadership who should know better and did no better! He busted the chops of the hypocrites, not the average Jew. He came to save the lost sheep of Israel — not the Gentiles in His earthly ministry and said as much.

    However, He extended God’s grace to a few Gentiles (goyim) when He was asked in faith.

    The Judaism of His day had become over ritualized. It was the ritual that seemed to matter to the powers that were. Jesus redirected them to the relationship — corporate and individual.

    It is hard for us humans to focus on two things at once — we tend to throw the baby out w/the bath water…we go for the ritual to the exclusion of the relationship. We go whole hog for the personal intense relationship at the expense of an outward focus of ministry. We denigrate ritual in favor of only a powerful relationship.

    Jesus calls us to both in BALANCE. If we are in Christ, we are also part of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If we lose sight of that, we lose sight of why we were grafted in and the corporate nature of our life in Christ suffers damage.

    Jesus practiced the ritual of His day at the Temple in Jerusalem. He practiced the ritual of His day at the local synagogue. He also practiced the relationship and discipline of prayer before He met the needs of the sons and daughters of Israel.

    We are called to emulate His example to the best of our ability. So, Christian, steep yourself in the Old Testament, knowing that is it also a love letter fm God to you as well as to the Jew! Ruth put it well — your people are MY people!

  149. Judi Jones says:

    An understanding of the Jewish community and the fact that Jesus was a Jew and the Apostles were also Jewish is key to a full understanding of Scripture. When they spoke of Scripture, they were referring to the Tanahk, the Old Testament, the new Testament had not been written yet, so in order to understand all of the teachings, one must look at it from the Jewish mindset of the time

  150. Judi Jones says:

    An understanding of the Jewish community and the fact that Jesus was a Jew and the Apostles were also Jewish is key to a full understanding of Scripture. When they spoke of Scripture, they were referring to the Tanahk, the Old Testament, the new Testament had not been written yet, so in order to understand all of the teachings, one must look at it from the Jewish mindset of the time

  151. Gerald Rabinovitch says:

    Without a Christian background, reading the gospels gives a clear answer that Jesus was a Jew. The gospels, however, perhaps because of subsequent editing or speaking to foreign audiences, already distanced Jesus from his origins by speaking of “the Jews”.

  152. Gerald Rabinovitch says:

    Without a Christian background, reading the gospels gives a clear answer that Jesus was a Jew. The gospels, however, perhaps because of subsequent editing or speaking to foreign audiences, already distanced Jesus from his origins by speaking of “the Jews”.

  153. Susan Fischer says:

    Was Christianity a Jewish sect?
    They were first called Christians in Antioch, this was after Christ died and rose from the dead and was seated at the right hand of God. They were called Christians then because they kept proclaiming “Christ in you” “Christ in you” which was being born again and having God and Christ in you.
    Is that a Jewish sect? No! After you have Christ in you there is no more Jew or Gentile but one body through Christ Jesus.

  154. Susan Fischer says:

    Was Christianity a Jewish sect?
    They were first called Christians in Antioch, this was after Christ died and rose from the dead and was seated at the right hand of God. They were called Christians then because they kept proclaiming “Christ in you” “Christ in you” which was being born again and having God and Christ in you.
    Is that a Jewish sect? No! After you have Christ in you there is no more Jew or Gentile but one body through Christ Jesus.

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184 Responses

  1. rodd says:

    If Jesus were a Jew, please explain John ch 8 v 44 in which JESUS HIMSELF tells us that JEWS are the “children of the devil” The Jews have already PROVED themselves NOT to be Israelites!
    To state that JESES was a JEW is PURE BLASPHEMY…!! There were NO JEWS at Sinai. I can tell you much much more.

    1. Samuel says:

      This verse is against those who opposed Jesus, not all the Jews. He had Jewish disciples. Do not lie and try to perverse the holy scriptures.

  2. Eddie says:

    Jewish? Yes at the time. Christianity didn’t rise until after Issa (Jesus) was gone. The Gospels? Written by a man. A man, not four, Saul. He wrote them all. Later the Jewish and Christian faiths once again became rife with idol worship and worship of men instead of God. Icons, relics, saints, plus the revision of God’s word by men later led to the rise of Islam, which warns to return focus to God, the one God, and stop worshipping multiple deities, icons, relics, etc.

  3. […] that follows is based in part on the article posted by the BAR, “Was Jesus a Jew?” Bible Archaeological Society, and various other sources as quoted […]

    1. Allan Webb says:

      Jesus, being a Jew and found without fault by the hierarchy of Judaism during his day, did attack and ultimately destroy many on the ways of Judaism. He primarily brought attention to the fallacies of the Mosaic Laws or Mitvot when he directly pointed out the hypocrisy of work on the Sabbath with the story of the ox in a ditch. Then when the men took up stones to stone a woman caught in adultery, he wrote something in the sand. Could it have been the law itself where it states that both people caught in adultery should be stoned. He most likely knew that some of the men holding the rocks were also guilty of the same and possibly by the same woman! Then there was the cleansing of the temple. In 70 ad, the kingdom of Israel ceased to exist. No king, no temple, no priests, no sacrifices, and ultimately, no hope found in Judaism. The nation known as Israel today is of man’s making. That’s one man’s opinion.

    2. This article seems to present a false choice – either Jesus was Jewish OR he said what is recorded of him. History shows both can be true. The Jews definitely looked for a Messiah/Christ who would be over the Jews and Gentiles. A new kingdom. More than there was Jewish thinking that there were 2 Yahweh’s who were one (search Michael Heiser Two Powers in Heaven).

  4. David Murray says:

    If I wasn’t so tired I’d consider a more detailed comment which on its face seems such a ridiculous question to begin with………….YES Jesus was born from Jewish parents but he IS the Son of God which places his existence on a plain still most cannot comprehend…………..Jesus was NOT a Christian………………..I, David Murray am a Christian because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ!!
    Jesus cannot be the follower of himself……………..He IS the founder of Christianity because He is the Christ………………God help us all here

    1. Allan Webb says:

      I would rather consider myself a follower of Jesus rather than a Christian due to the way that the modern, Western, Christian church has turned away from the New Testament teachings of Christ to falling in love with old Testament laws. Today’s preachers and teachers also make more laws based upon the letters written into the New Testament by Paul and others. They mistake Paul’s first century teachings as if they are viable in today’s world. Slave obey your masters is one example and his teachings about women in the church and their submission to men in all aspects of their lives was more culturally correct at that time. Not so today. Jesus emphatically said that love replaced laws in Matthew chapter 22:36-40. In essence, he was saying that making laws for Christians is going back to the way of condemnation that comes with the law. There is no life found in the law! The law is a tutor only. Thou shalt not covet kills every human on earth spiritually speaking. No one can see us doing it and we do it without realizing it! No the Christian life is founded on LOVE. One thing Paul did get right was in I Cor. 13:13 where he stated that three things were eternal. Faith, Hope, and Love. And the GREATEST of these is love.

    2. Jeffrey Guarino says:

      No this is wrong. Just because Jesus was the founder of Christianity does not mean he can’t be a member of it. God and the devil are Christians. They believe in Christ and not some other religions diety. Jesus definitely was not a Jew. He could have even done Jewish traditional stuff as he grew up but that was just for show.

  5. Peter Lia says:

    There can be no doubt that self-identifying “christians” are the most deceived, if not the most ignorant beings on earth. Jesus is NOT a jew, never was, never will be. Attaching any religion to Jesus is like pouring sludge into a pure glass of water. If Jesus is a jew it would mean the Kingdom of God is jewish. As it stands today, if jews live out there beliefs and blasphemies about Christ, there will not be one jew in the Kingdom. Essentially, “christans” are judaized jack asses who have yet to figure out that one cannot be crucified with Christ and baptized into His death when they don’t even believe in Him. Religious jews are the same today as they were 2,000 years ago. They still believe they are superior because they are jews, not because God gave them that identity. Human superiority goes against EVERYTHING God is and says and so does religion. It is bad enough jews slander Christ from one end of the planet to the other, but it is gravely disturbing that “christians” join in their romp. Read the Talmud, then tell me Jesus is a jew.

    1. Charles Chi Halevi says:

      Peter Lia’s ramblings are grossly distorted from reality. The fact that his written comments about Jews employ the lower case letter “j” for Jews is very telling; today’s anti-Semites are very fond of refusing to capitalize the word “Jew,” as Lia does so many times in his billingsgate screed.

      Here’s something else to infuriate his kind: Jesus was, in modern parlance, a card-carrying Pharisee in most cases. The Pharisees’ teachings are very much in line with much of what is ascribed to Jesus. For instance, it was the Pharisees who taught that when the Torah uses the term “an eye for an eye” it was never literally practiced (unlike Hammurabi’s law).

      Instead, the Pharisees said, it meant that if a person caused another person to lose an eye, that person was fiscally liable for five kinds of punishment; nezek, ts’ar, reepooy, shevet and boshet. In English this meant he had to pay for damage to that person; the pain he inflicted; medical bills; convalescence; and the shame the victim felt for being one-eyed. All this is found in the Talmud, which I believe Lia obviously never studied.

      I could go on in greater length and, if invited by the editors here, I would gladly share an article I wrote decades ago, called “Your Pharisee Heresy.”

      1. Zachary Keeter says:

        Oh, stop it. Peter is speaking the truth and you know it. Here’s something to chew on; Jews are no longer God’s chosen people. Not only did they scoff in his face every time they saw him, but they also killed the man. Of which, is not just the Son of God, but also was supposed to be their Messiah. But they rejected Him by killing Him. When they rejected Him, God turned to the Gentiles (us). Meaning, Christians are God’s chosen people now. Anyone who accepts Christ as King is a part of God’s chosen people. But truly, read the Talmud. You’ll find everything the Jews think about us, and about Christ, and even His mother, in there.

  6. Patrick Tilton says:

    Jesus never existed. The Gospels are pseudohistorical fabrications concocted by scholars working in the court of the Flavian Emperor whose purpose was to combat the religion of their opponents — Messianic Jewish Zealots — by inventing a Messiah who never existed yet who is portrayed in this false literature as if he was pro-Roman and anti-Jewish — a patent absurdity. By pretending that he existed c. AD 30, they could put ‘prophecies’ into his mouth that were accurately ‘fulfilled’ 40 years later — in the events of the Jewish War — thus ‘proving’ that he was divine, being able to predict the future . . . a future that had already happened by the time the Gospels were actually written.
    Read Joseph Atwill’s book CAESAR’S MESSIAH for a detailed deconstruction of the New Testament. Creating fake religions was a tactic that the Roman authorities employed to serve political ends. Christianity was invented by the Romans, in part as a punishment for the Jews who had dared to wage a war against their Roman overlords. The Christian antisemitism that has plagued the Jews ever since they lost the expensive war they waged was the intended effect — a curse against the Jewish people that has long outlived the Roman political power that was responsible for its creation in the first place.

    1. David G says:

      then it would have been totally possible for romans to quench every Christian activity, and break their cores…

      but look at that – – that didn’t happen.

      so you’re telling me that romans failed to destroy religion made on their whim, on which they should have had every resource to completely expose its fraud? even if it was taking the hearts of roman citizens?

    2. Rose White says:

      Patrick Tilton is a fool.

    3. FToni says:

      The evidence indicates Jesus, a Jewish Rabbi, existed and was crucified by Pontius Pilate.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Jesus

  7. Vernie Taylor says:

    If Jesus is taken out of the context of Judaism, then his life and teachings as well as the core theological tenets of Christianity are all completely meaningless.. #1-In what religion did we find the invention of the idea and even the term “messiah’? #2-What religion has seen several messiahs arise in their history whose stories have been absorbed into their sacred scripture? #3-To whom is a future messiah promised? so on and so forth,….

  8. Paulo Mendes Glória says:

    He was not. He’s because he’s alive. There is no record of your conversion. He was born, grew up, preached, died and rose again as a Jew.

  9. Jim says:

    Jesus was a jew.

    1. Debra Field-Henry says:

      AMEN

  10. dogma says:

    I think judaism is a seperate religion than the new testament, but Joseph may have had Israel ruites

  11. […] others insist that Jesus really was white – or at least close to it. This group argues that he was born Jewish, and therefore would have appeared more white than anything else. In fact, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an […]

    1. Merciry says:

      Men Wrote the Bible. They found ancient scrolls written in a dead language and tried to translate them but what if the scrolls they call themselves translating were an attempted translation from another dead language themselves and what if it goes on and on. Knowing the possibilities how can people take the Bible as “Gospel”. Why so many contradictions in it? “Elohim” doesn’t make mistakes right? Maybe not but Men sure do.

  12. John says:

    I like to say I don’t know about what I don’t know, which I believe we should all do that. But I just looked up John 4 and in verse
    22 he tells the woman “you Samaritans worship what you do not know, WE worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.”. I mean you can always ask Jesus himself right? Until then there’s nothing wrong with stating what is true. We don’t know. Thank you.

  13. John says:

    I like to say I don’t know about what I don’t know, which I believe we should all do that. But I just looked up John 4 and in verse
    22 he tells the woman “you Samaritans worship what you do not know, WE worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.”. I mean you can always ask Jesus himself right? Until then there’s nothing wrong with stating what is true. We don’t know. Thank you.

  14. John says:

    That is a great point and as true as that sounds I feel, after receiving the holy spirit that I have great point as well. Hear me out. How about we say “we do not know” about the things we do not know about. It’s that simple. One more thing, to find what everyone is seeking, which is “truth”, religion must be pushed aside. Religion limits you and builds walls keeping you in and what may be actual truth out. Thank you for your time.

  15. John says:

    That is a great point and as true as that sounds I feel, after receiving the holy spirit that I have great point as well. Hear me out. How about we say “we do not know” about the things we do not know about. It’s that simple. One more thing, to find what everyone is seeking, which is “truth”, religion must be pushed aside. Religion limits you and builds walls keeping you in and what may be actual truth out. Thank you for your time.

  16. Nero says:

    You’ve got it completely backwards. To NOT wrench Jesus out of judaism is to destroy any kind of decency, much less divinity, that this Jesus person really represented. To put a wrench in C.S. Lewis’s ‘trilemma’… Jesus was either an awakened being trying to teach against judaism, or he was a lying lunatic. Hopefully the real Jesus WAS trying to teach against judaism, which is a heinous ideology. If we are to imagine Jesus as a benevolent and sane religious teacher, we must see Jesus as someone who completely transcended judaism. No decent person would support stoning people to death, or murdering them for skipping the sabbath day, cutting baby genitals for jewish rituals, etc. The real Jesus had to be someone completely different than what the bible mostly portrays him as, otherwise we are left with an entirely contradictory/inconsistent set of scriptures between the so called ‘old’ and new testament.

    1. David says:

      This is an ignorant take “Nero”. You are calling Jewish religious thought “heinous” yet fail to understand that in the context of the wider world, it was far more humanitarian than what you would have seen back then. Jesus, like the various prophets before him, pointed out hypocrisy and care for the weak and helpless,

      Jeremiah did this as well and was similarly condemned. The difference for us Christians is that we see him as more than a teacher and prophet, we see him as our savior and the Son of God. To transcend Judaism as you state, he must have been grounded in it first, which is the whole point of the scholarship summarized in the article.

      What you are arguing is akin to saying that Thomas Jefferson’s political philosophy was completely alien and separate to that of England, that he basically created everything out of thin air, when the reality is that he built his ideas concerning America from the heritage of the British fight for liberty going back to Magna Carta and the Battle of Runnymede.

  17. Nero says:

    You’ve got it completely backwards. To NOT wrench Jesus out of judaism is to destroy any kind of decency, much less divinity, that this Jesus person really represented. To put a wrench in C.S. Lewis’s ‘trilemma’… Jesus was either an awakened being trying to teach against judaism, or he was a lying lunatic. Hopefully the real Jesus WAS trying to teach against judaism, which is a heinous ideology. If we are to imagine Jesus as a benevolent and sane religious teacher, we must see Jesus as someone who completely transcended judaism. No decent person would support stoning people to death, or murdering them for skipping the sabbath day, cutting baby genitals for jewish rituals, etc. The real Jesus had to be someone completely different than what the bible mostly portrays him as, otherwise we are left with an entirely contradictory/inconsistent set of scriptures between the so called ‘old’ and new testament.

    1. John says:

      That is a great point and as true as that sounds I feel, after receiving the holy spirit that I have great point as well. Hear me out. How about we say “we do not know” about the things we do not know about. It’s that simple. One more thing, to find what everyone is seeking, which is “truth”, religion must be pushed aside. Religion limits you and builds walls keeping you in and what may be actual truth out. Thank you for your time.

  18. Jerry Samuels says:

    Jesus was not Jewish. That would have been impossible. Or to say it in the negative if Jesus was Jewish then he could not have been The Messiah. Jews do not believe Jesus is The Messiah. Which means that Jesus would have had to believe that he was not who “He” said he was. Jesus like all Jews was a Hebrew. But he could not have been Jewish because Judaism is a refutation of his core Christian beliefs and Christianity is a refutation of the core beliefs of Judaism.

    An additional though less important reason why you can know Jesus was not Jewish is because of what he said in John 8:44-59. John 4:25-26 should clarify any confusion you may have on this point.

    1. Lennon says:

      Many of the comments here are down right terrible! I see so much hate in the comments of this post which is speaking of Jesus! You should be ashamed to speak in such ways!

      I see the hate here towards Jewish people so if you’re one of the people you’ll definitely not like this but it’s a fact and you can’t deny it! Jesus was born, lived, and died as a Jew, period!

      Jesus Celebrates Passover with His Disciples:

      Matthew 26:17 Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

      Jesus was called Rabbi:

      Luke 19:39 Thereupon some of the Pharisees in the crowd appealed to Him, saying, “Rabbi, reprove your disciples.”

      Jesus was angry when he seen a market inside a Jewish Temple which he called a house of God:

      Matthew: 21:12-14

      ‘’ And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves. And said to them, it is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.”

      And for the nonsense of Jewish people not being Gods chosen, this is NOT what the Bible says!

      Deuteronomy 10:15

      “Yet the Lord set His affection on your ancestors and loved them, and He chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today”

      Deuteronomy 7:6

      “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession”

      Deuteronomy 31:6

      “Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

      And lastly, God will never forget or forsake Israel!

      “For the Lord will not reject His people; He will never forsake His inheritance” (Psalm 94:14).

      “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me” (Isaiah 49:15–16).

      Do go against any of this is to go against the word of God!

      1. nicetryschlomo says:

        OY VEYY!!! HOW ANTI-SEMETIC TO SAY THAT JESUS ISN’T A JEW!!! None of the quotes you posted remotely prove that Jesus was a Jew. Not a single one of them.

  19. Jerry Samuels says:

    Jesus was not Jewish. That would have been impossible. Or to say it in the negative if Jesus was Jewish then he could not have been The Messiah. Jews do not believe Jesus is The Messiah. Which means that Jesus would have had to believe that he was not who “He” said he was. Jesus like all Jews was a Hebrew. But he could not have been Jewish because Judaism is a refutation of his core Christian beliefs and Christianity is a refutation of the core beliefs of Judaism.
    An additional though less important reason why you can know Jesus was not Jewish is because of what he said in John 8:44-59. John 4:25-26 should clarify any confusion you may have on this point.

  20. Ellen Browning says:

    Great read and like to read more,love my Saviour

  21. Ellen Browning says:

    Great read and like to read more,love my Saviour

  22. :Baron says:

    Honestly, it really doesn’t matter. The fact is, Yeshua HaMashiac was then and is now the savior G-d spoke of in the Torah/Old Testament. Once Jesus (Greek for Yeshua) was born, Judaism ended. The New Testament is a history book that focuses on Yeshua HaMashiac as the savior of mankind. The Pharisees didn’t see it that way. Modern day orthodox Jews are an extension of those Pharisees, they are the last remaining remnants of a sect that didn’t accept Jesus.

    It’s sad to see Jews repeatedly slander the New Testament by continuously proclaiming that they are the chosen people. They are clinging to a falsity that is spiritually debasing to their kind. Let it go people, join the land of truth already.

    Judaism is dead.

    :Baron

  23. :Baron says:

    Honestly, it really doesn’t matter. The fact is, Yeshua HaMashiac was then and is now the savior G-d spoke of in the Torah/Old Testament. Once Jesus (Greek for Yeshua) was born, Judaism ended. The New Testament is a history book that focuses on Yeshua HaMashiac as the savior of mankind. The Pharisees didn’t see it that way. Modern day orthodox Jews are an extension of those Pharisees, they are the last remaining remnants of a sect that didn’t accept Jesus.
    It’s sad to see Jews repeatedly slander the New Testament by continuously proclaiming that they are the chosen people. They are clinging to a falsity that is spiritually debasing to their kind. Let it go people, join the land of truth already.
    Judaism is dead.
    :Baron

  24. Dan says:

    I’m always amused (and sometimes confused) by those that ask this question; the answer couldn’t be clearer. Religion is a set of beliefs. The fundamental belief of Christianity is that Jesus was the Son of God. Jews do not believe he was. Jesus is clearly on the record as believing he was….there is no rational argument of what his ‘religion’ was.

  25. Dan says:

    I’m always amused (and sometimes confused) by those that ask this question; the answer couldn’t be clearer. Religion is a set of beliefs. The fundamental belief of Christianity is that Jesus was the Son of God. Jews do not believe he was. Jesus is clearly on the record as believing he was….there is no rational argument of what his ‘religion’ was.

  26. MARILYN YAFFEE says:

    YOU KNOW THERE IS NO ARGUMENT–JESUS WAS AT THE PASSOVER SEDER…..HE DIDN’T TEACH ANYTHING BUT THE TORAH…CERTAINLY NOT CHRISTIANITY. IT DIDN’T EXIST…AND HOW CAN JESUS BE THE MESSIAH ? BECAUSE G-D SAID IN THE JEWISH BIBLE…THAT WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES ” Messiah (the “Anointed One”), sent by God to save all nations”..AND PEACE SHALL REIGN…I AM NO HISTORIAN JUST JEWISH…KINDA KNOW THAT THIS IS IN THE JEWISH BIBLE…SO PREY TELL WHEN DID THE WORLD EVER ENJOY PEACE?? SOOOO NO PEACE! NO MESSIAH! WE ARE STILL WAITING…NO PROBLEM…WE ARE PRETTY SUCCESSFUL- EDUCATED,,,HAVE GIVEN GREAT GIFTS TO THE WORLD IN SCIENCE MEDICINE AND LETS NOT FORGET THE MOVIES….WE HAVE SHARED EVERYTHING.AND WHAT DID WE GET IN RETURN–6 MILLION DIED AND WHY? THEY WERE JEWISH…SO BE HONEST IF A MAN DOES NOT FULFILL THE PROPHECY HE JUST IS NOT THE MESSIAH…MARCIA

  27. MARILYN YAFFEE says:

    YOU KNOW THERE IS NO ARGUMENT–JESUS WAS AT THE PASSOVER SEDER…..HE DIDN’T TEACH ANYTHING BUT THE TORAH…CERTAINLY NOT CHRISTIANITY. IT DIDN’T EXIST…AND HOW CAN JESUS BE THE MESSIAH ? BECAUSE G-D SAID IN THE JEWISH BIBLE…THAT WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES ” Messiah (the “Anointed One”), sent by God to save all nations”..AND PEACE SHALL REIGN…I AM NO HISTORIAN JUST JEWISH…KINDA KNOW THAT THIS IS IN THE JEWISH BIBLE…SO PREY TELL WHEN DID THE WORLD EVER ENJOY PEACE?? SOOOO NO PEACE! NO MESSIAH! WE ARE STILL WAITING…NO PROBLEM…WE ARE PRETTY SUCCESSFUL- EDUCATED,,,HAVE GIVEN GREAT GIFTS TO THE WORLD IN SCIENCE MEDICINE AND LETS NOT FORGET THE MOVIES….WE HAVE SHARED EVERYTHING.AND WHAT DID WE GET IN RETURN–6 MILLION DIED AND WHY? THEY WERE JEWISH…SO BE HONEST IF A MAN DOES NOT FULFILL THE PROPHECY HE JUST IS NOT THE MESSIAH…MARCIA

    1. John says:

      The peace that Jesus brought was reconciliation with God the father not “world peace.” After Jesus’ second coming and His people are with Him in His kingdom, there will be no more tears, pain, and suffering. Jesus, the son of God, is the Messiah. Those who believe in Him will have everlasting life, Jesus is the only way to His kingdom. He who has an ear let him hear.

  28. Roll says:

    This shouldn’t be complicated to figure out. We are told that Jesus was born to a mother and father that followed Judaism, born in a city (Bethlehem) that was once located in a nation that was once called the “Kingdom of Judah”. Jesus would grow up, learning, reading and teaching the Torah in synagogues, and his 12 disciples were also followers of the Torah. On the day Jesus was crucified, the roman soldiers brought him down from the cross before sunset simply out of respect of his sabbath observance. Christianity didn’t really take hold until some 200 years after his death, when Roman Emperor Constantine (Jewish mother) declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. So yeah, I believe that Jesus, we could say for all intended purposes, was Jewish, and Christianity is a Jewish Sect.

  29. Roll says:

    This shouldn’t be complicated to figure out. We are told that Jesus was born to a mother and father that followed Judaism, born in a city (Bethlehem) that was once located in a nation that was once called the “Kingdom of Judah”. Jesus would grow up, learning, reading and teaching the Torah in synagogues, and his 12 disciples were also followers of the Torah. On the day Jesus was crucified, the roman soldiers brought him down from the cross before sunset simply out of respect of his sabbath observance. Christianity didn’t really take hold until some 200 years after his death, when Roman Emperor Constantine (Jewish mother) declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. So yeah, I believe that Jesus, we could say for all intended purposes, was Jewish, and Christianity is a Jewish Sect.

  30. Jeremy Walker says:

    Jews were first called Christians in Antioch because they mingled with them, studied and taught them. Christ was/ black from the seed of David a so-called black man. Christ was not a Christian He kept His Fathers Laws.

  31. Jeremy Walker says:

    Jews were first called Christians in Antioch because they mingled with them, studied and taught them. Christ was/ black from the seed of David a so-called black man. Christ was not a Christian He kept His Fathers Laws.

  32. Jeff says:

    Jews believe a large plot of land belongs to them because they have Abraham’s DNA. To prove this they follow the maternal blood line, where is Mary’s genealogy? If Jesus was born of the Holy Ghost and not Joseph Abraham’s DNA would not have come through the biblical genealogies in Matt & Luke

    1. Joseph says:

      The genealogy in Matthew 1 is Joseph’s, beginning with Abraham, proving Jesus’ legal right to the throne of David. The genealogy in Luke 3 is Mary’s, proving His biological descent through David back to Adam.
      The life of Jesus cannot be understood apart from the Old Testament, as He perfectly fulfilled the Law (not the Pharisaic legalistic additions) and dozens of Messianic prophecies.

    2. Greg says:

      Many of the comments here are down right terrible! I see so much hate in the comments of this post which is speaking of Jesus! You should be ashamed to speak in such ways!

      I see the hate here towards Jewish people so if you’re one of the people you’ll definitely not like this but it’s a fact and you can’t deny it! Jesus was born, lived, and died as a Jew, period!

      Jesus Celebrates Passover with His Disciples:

      Matthew 26:17 Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

      Jesus was called Rabbi:

      Luke 19:39 Thereupon some of the Pharisees in the crowd appealed to Him, saying, “Rabbi, reprove your disciples.”

      Jesus was angry when he seen a market inside a Jewish Temple which he called a house of God:

      Matthew: 21:12-14

      ‘’ And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves. And said to them, it is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.”

      And for the nonsense of Jewish people not being Gods chosen, this is NOT what the Bible says!

      Deuteronomy 10:15

      “Yet the Lord set His affection on your ancestors and loved them, and He chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today”

      Deuteronomy 7:6

      “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession”

      Deuteronomy 31:6

      “Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

      And lastly, God will never forget or forsake Israel!

      “For the Lord will not reject His people; He will never forsake His inheritance” (Psalm 94:14).

      “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me” (Isaiah 49:15–16).

      Do go against any of this is to go against the word of God!

  33. Jeff says:

    Jews believe a large plot of land belongs to them because they have Abraham’s DNA. To prove this they follow the maternal blood line, where is Mary’s genealogy? If Jesus was born of the Holy Ghost and not Joseph Abraham’s DNA would not have come through the biblical genealogies in Matt & Luke

    1. Jeremy Walker says:

      They have no real DNA the land the claim was stolen… They are imposters

  34. Dr. Bijoy Das says:

    Bullshit. Jesus was verily a Jew and he is mentioned in the Old Testament, Bhavishya Puran and Al Qoran clearly.

  35. Kristian says:

    Well I needed this for an assignment. Very useful

  36. Kristian says:

    Well I needed this for an assignment. Very useful

  37. James E Sullivan jr. says:

    I don’t think it matter what he was, it matters what he taught, I think it was probably very difficult for people of his time to live by the commandment of God Christians went to their death rather than compromise their beliefs and were fed to the lions . I’m guessing this was difficult to defeat so he was crucified , the Romans seeing this conviction of people’s faith wanted to be part of it and Catholics from then on believed in his death their sins were forgiven , however I dont think forgiveness comes in a pill I think forgiveness comes by forgiving just like the Lord’s prayer says forgive our trespass as we forgive those who trespass against us. I Know this is a very touchy subject with most everybody and I had no intention of offending any one , we are all sinners . I believe our strength and our peace is in our unity not our division hopefully we will someday all live in peace with each other , love a little more hate a little less we are all human.

  38. James E Sullivan jr. says:

    I don’t think it matter what he was, it matters what he taught, I think it was probably very difficult for people of his time to live by the commandment of God Christians went to their death rather than compromise their beliefs and were fed to the lions . I’m guessing this was difficult to defeat so he was crucified , the Romans seeing this conviction of people’s faith wanted to be part of it and Catholics from then on believed in his death their sins were forgiven , however I dont think forgiveness comes in a pill I think forgiveness comes by forgiving just like the Lord’s prayer says forgive our trespass as we forgive those who trespass against us. I Know this is a very touchy subject with most everybody and I had no intention of offending any one , we are all sinners . I believe our strength and our peace is in our unity not our division hopefully we will someday all live in peace with each other , love a little more hate a little less we are all human.

  39. Donna Fleming says:

    You are all crazy. Jesus was Jewish if he existed. Born, lived died a Jew.why deny his belief. He said “I come not to change the law”. A Jew ffs.

  40. Donna Fleming says:

    You are all crazy. Jesus was Jewish if he existed. Born, lived died a Jew.why deny his belief. He said “I come not to change the law”. A Jew ffs.

    1. Jilli says:

      He did indeed exist. But keep going: “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law but to FULFILL IT.” The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed; the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. Everything in the OT point to Jesus Christ and His fulfillment of the Law and of Prophecy.

      1. Jeremy Walker says:

        He, Christ fulfilled the Law of sacrifice. That’s it.

  41. ron says:

    Jesus was not a Hebrew, His knowledge came from Egypt, But only connection to the jewish faith was his mothers adopted religion from her husband. Mary Magdlene was not a hebrew either… who ever adopted and changed this wrote the bible has fooled the world. Married with children before being murdered by JEWS…. So why would Jesus be Jewish or hebrew? He was not

  42. Doug acebedo says:

    You cannot make comments based on a translation. Learn Greek if you wish to give your opinion of a Greek manuscript.

  43. Doug acebedo says:

    You cannot make comments based on a translation. Learn Greek if you wish to give your opinion of a Greek manuscript.

  44. Doug acebedo says:

    You cannot make an intelligent statement about something you read that was a translation. Go and learn Greek if you want to comment on Greek literature.

  45. Doug acebedo says:

    You cannot make an intelligent statement about something you read that was a translation. Go and learn Greek if you want to comment on Greek literature.

  46. Wesley Mcgranor says:

    Great postmodern aiding and abetting. As if it was not on purpose to blur the lines, so to speak. I’d like to thank the Holy Family for being Fulfilled Jews and thus White Supremacists.

  47. meno says:

    Something bothers me in all this stories about Jesus Christ. About if He was a jew or a christian. Maybe he was neither of them two at the end. He grew up in a jew tradition and culture and was back then a jew just as the rest. ok that is that. now we go to christianity, but here christianity and teaching came after his death and not from himself in person as He wasn’t alive anymore. So for me its like He is neither really jew anymore as He was teaching something else, a new teaching that wasn’t there in their time and no christian as He himself was not there anymore. So His teaching, the one of himself must be something else then jew and christian, but what? we ll never know as we can’t ask Him. must be something good and not evil, but what really ?

  48. meno says:

    Something bothers me in all this stories about Jesus Christ. About if He was a jew or a christian. Maybe he was neither of them two at the end. He grew up in a jew tradition and culture and was back then a jew just as the rest. ok that is that. now we go to christianity, but here christianity and teaching came after his death and not from himself in person as He wasn’t alive anymore. So for me its like He is neither really jew anymore as He was teaching something else, a new teaching that wasn’t there in their time and no christian as He himself was not there anymore. So His teaching, the one of himself must be something else then jew and christian, but what? we ll never know as we can’t ask Him. must be something good and not evil, but what really ?

  49. Gerald Nichols says:

    Much confusion would be dissipated if more would learn that Apostle Paul taught a “dispensation” of God’s Word.(Eph. 3:2)
    God temporarily set Israel aside and began the dispensation of Grace without Israel, and without the Law. Paul was the chosen apostle for this. God kept this development hidden [secret] from the beginning of the world.(Rom. 16:25)
    That is why Paul didn’t receive his gospel from man (Galations 1) but directly from the risen Lord.

  50. Gerald Nichols says:

    Much confusion would be dissipated if more would learn that Apostle Paul taught a “dispensation” of God’s Word.(Eph. 3:2)
    God temporarily set Israel aside and began the dispensation of Grace without Israel, and without the Law. Paul was the chosen apostle for this. God kept this development hidden [secret] from the beginning of the world.(Rom. 16:25)
    That is why Paul didn’t receive his gospel from man (Galations 1) but directly from the risen Lord.

  51. Kevin DeFranco says:

    He was Christ. Christians His followers, came after His death and Resurrection. A child can figure that out. Biblical ” scholars” do nothing more than twist and contort the simple truths found in God’s Word; not theirs. They try to confound people so that they never see the revealed truths of His Word. Jesus said in Mark 13…..Behold I have foretold you all things. Read His messages and learn for yourself. Get a Strong’s Concordance and a Smith’s Bible Dictionary and go for it!

  52. Kevin DeFranco says:

    He was Christ. Christians His followers, came after His death and Resurrection. A child can figure that out. Biblical ” scholars” do nothing more than twist and contort the simple truths found in God’s Word; not theirs. They try to confound people so that they never see the revealed truths of His Word. Jesus said in Mark 13…..Behold I have foretold you all things. Read His messages and learn for yourself. Get a Strong’s Concordance and a Smith’s Bible Dictionary and go for it!

  53. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Jesus was a Jew. As the Son of Man in the flesh, His lineage came from Mary, His mother. Her father was of the house of Judah. Her mother was of the house of Levi…..enough said. Then spiritually there was God. He was with God, and was God….The Word made flesh that dwelt among us. case closed.

  54. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Jesus was a Jew. As the Son of Man in the flesh, His lineage came from Mary, His mother. Her father was of the house of Judah. Her mother was of the house of Levi…..enough said. Then spiritually there was God. He was with God, and was God….The Word made flesh that dwelt among us. case closed.

  55. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Mary His mother. Her father was of the house of Judah. Her mother was of the house of Levi. A JEW O.K.! look in Luke to find it.

  56. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Mary His mother. Her father was of the house of Judah. Her mother was of the house of Levi. A JEW O.K.! look in Luke to find it.

  57. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Jesus’s Mother Mary. Her father was of the house of Judah, the King line. Her mother was of the house of Levi. Mary’s cousin Elizabeth was married to a Levitical priest. Jesus was of the King line and the priest line. And then there was God. The Jews are His Chosen people. putting two and two together are not difficult! As the Son of Man in the flesh He was Jewish. His spirit was of God and was God. Case closed.

  58. Kevin DeFranco says:

    Jesus’s Mother Mary. Her father was of the house of Judah, the King line. Her mother was of the house of Levi. Mary’s cousin Elizabeth was married to a Levitical priest. Jesus was of the King line and the priest line. And then there was God. The Jews are His Chosen people. putting two and two together are not difficult! As the Son of Man in the flesh He was Jewish. His spirit was of God and was God. Case closed.

  59. True Covenant Quotes and More says:

    Jews are Edomites by their own admission. Their religion is the Babylonian Talmud also known as tradition of the Elders. Christ was a Judahite living in the land of Judea. He was an Israelite. That doesn’t make him a mongrel Edomite for Edomites are mamzares and mamzares cannot inherit the kingdom saith YHWH

  60. True Covenant Quotes and More says:

    Jews are Edomites by their own admission. Their religion is the Babylonian Talmud also known as tradition of the Elders. Christ was a Judahite living in the land of Judea. He was an Israelite. That doesn’t make him a mongrel Edomite for Edomites are mamzares and mamzares cannot inherit the kingdom saith YHWH

  61. Dave says:

    Without A Doubt.

  62. Dave says:

    Without A Doubt.

  63. Dave says:

    Oh Absolutely.

  64. Dave says:

    Oh Absolutely.

  65. aswanash alehim says:

    to william my name is anagram from imanuel kristo ev eloh
    go to church if yoy believe anythingh

  66. William Bannister says:

    Jesus was called many things . . .

    Christian was NOT one of them. Not only was the Word Christian Χριστιανός Christianos NOT used for the first time until about 45 years after His death, to call Jesus a Christian is a nonsensical application of what Christian means and how it was used by culture THEN – when the text was written – not now.

    Christian means follower of the Messiah . . . follower of the Christ – from the Greek word Χριστός Christos which is informed by the Hebrew word and concept ‏מָשִׁיחַ‎ māshîach or Messiah as most will know it.

    To call Jesus a Christian is to call Him a follower of HIMSELF . . . .

    The FOLLOWERS of Jesus were called Christians (followers of the Messiah) by unbelievers as well as being called followers of the WAY because He said I AM the Way, . . the truth, the light . . . They were called Notzirim (Nazarenes) and they were also called HaManim (heretics).

  67. William Bannister says:

    Jesus was called many things . . .
    Christian was NOT one of them. Not only was the Word Christian Χριστιανός Christianos NOT used for the first time until about 45 years after His death, to call Jesus a Christian is a nonsensical application of what Christian means and how it was used by culture THEN – when the text was written – not now.
    Christian means follower of the Messiah . . . follower of the Christ – from the Greek word Χριστός Christos which is informed by the Hebrew word and concept ‏מָשִׁיחַ‎ māshîach or Messiah as most will know it.
    To call Jesus a Christian is to call Him a follower of HIMSELF . . . .
    The FOLLOWERS of Jesus were called Christians (followers of the Messiah) by unbelievers as well as being called followers of the WAY because He said I AM the Way, . . the truth, the light . . . They were called Notzirim (Nazarenes) and they were also called HaManim (heretics).

  68. Would Jesus Say “I’m Spiritual But Not Religious?” – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] 1.Anthony J. Saldarini, Was Jesus a Jew? Available at http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/was-jesus-a-jew/ […]

  69. Would Jesus Say “I’m Spiritual But Not Religious?” – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] 1.Anthony J. Saldarini, Was Jesus a Jew? Available at http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/was-jesus-a-jew/ […]

  70. aswanash alehim says:

    YH: lalekhtash seh terra tattosh naktash sah nashna
    imri: to people of terra , tattos nation is here, the beast of bible,
    nakta is his nation
    their ufos are like horse shoes and black in colour

  71. aswanash alehim says:

    in the last day you will answer what yoy have said
    imri
    not me because i speak every day with YH
    wetshkanesh, sanethkas selahim

  72. aswanash alehim says:

    my father YH ask from isis leaders why do yoy exist?
    imri

  73. aswanash alehim says:

    iesush was from nazareth

  74. aswanash alehim says:

    iesush was from nazareth

  75. My Own Testimony: Why Evangelism and Apologetics Can’t Be Separated From Each Other | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] me what I thought Jesus was black. I said there was not one shred of evidence for Jesus being black so I naturally said Jesus (while probably as a Mediterranean Jew was dark skinned) was Jewish. To this he replied by saying I was lying to people and deceiving them as well. After all […]

  76. My Own Testimony: Why Evangelism and Apologetics Can’t Be Separated From Each Other | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] me what I thought Jesus was black. I said there was not one shred of evidence for Jesus being black so I naturally said Jesus (while probably as a Mediterranean Jew was dark skinned) was Jewish. To this he replied by saying I was lying to people and deceiving them as well. After all […]

  77. My Own Testimony: Why Evangelism and Apologetics Can’t Be Seperated From Each Other | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] me what I thought Jesus was black. I said there was not one shred of evidence for Jesus being black so I naturally said Jesus (while probably as a Mediterranean Jew was dark skinned) was Jewish. To this he replied by saying I was lying to people and deceiving them as well. After all […]

  78. My Own Testimony: Why Evangelism and Apologetics Can’t Be Seperated From Each Other | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] me what I thought Jesus was black. I said there was not one shred of evidence for Jesus being black so I naturally said Jesus (while probably as a Mediterranean Jew was dark skinned) was Jewish. To this he replied by saying I was lying to people and deceiving them as well. After all […]

  79. Rick Carpenter says:

    Re the “Aryan scholarship”, unfortunately even today Gerhard Kittel’s Nazi-infused TWNT/TDNT is viewed as a valid resource for Christians.
    And @Gerald re use of “the Jews”: It’s not anti-Semitic. Josephus, Philo, and other unassailablely Jewish authors of the time used this term.

  80. Would Jesus Say “I’m spiritual, but not religious?” | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] 1.Anthony J. Saldarini, Was Jesus a Jew? Available at http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/was-jesus-a-jew/ […]

  81. Would Jesus Say “I’m spiritual, but not religious?” | THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM says:

    […] 1.Anthony J. Saldarini, Was Jesus a Jew? Available at http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/was-jesus-a-jew/ […]

  82. aswanash alehim says:

    what it feels when yoy prai and yoy know there ish no one ever answering to yoy
    imri

  83. aswanash alehim says:

    i dont much approve terrorists, but not murders, not hebrews and ishmaELS’ priests, you should destroy yoyr holy places because yoyr god went away
    imrikaneskanesh

  84. aswanash alehim says:

    why yishrael and yishlam popes do not anything do stop killing people,why yoy cann’t live in peace, YH’s dream is that palestinians children are in synagoga, and jewish children in minagoga
    imri

  85. aswanash alehim says:

    iesush crusified because of yishrael popes, do yoy think he will come back and what YH thinks
    imri

  86. aswanash alehim says:

    no one has read from bible what Iesush said
    nehawah ne wah neh
    son of man
    imanuel
    sanektash sehamel

  87. Henry John Lisgo says:

    If christians read their bibles both old testement and New how could we think that Jesus was any other than be a Jew. I was born in 52 and have never thought any other than that Jesus was a jew. I hold an inner respect for the Jewish people and have had the priveledge of visiting the holy land.
    May God grant Jerusalem peace.

  88. Henry John Lisgo says:

    If christians read their bibles both old testement and New how could we think that Jesus was any other than be a Jew. I was born in 52 and have never thought any other than that Jesus was a jew. I hold an inner respect for the Jewish people and have had the priveledge of visiting the holy land.
    May God grant Jerusalem peace.

  89. YH says:

    ¨larim olet pieni paska siellä yhteisössä,ja tämä tuli isältä YH

    YH

  90. YH says:

    ¨larim olet pieni paska siellä yhteisössä,ja tämä tuli isältä YH
    YH

  91. El Koussa says:

    Of course Jesus was not a Jew. His real name is Yāwshu not Yehoshua. Yāwshu means in Aramaic/Phoenician “YĀW saves”, and Yāw is known as the Canaanite/Phoenician god of water mentioned in the Ugaritic tablets. Yehoshua which means YHWH saves is a Judeo-Christian attempt to link Jesus to the Jews. Besides, YHWH is a Jewish derivation from the Phoenician Yāw, yet with a different understanding. The Phoenician Yāw is considered as one of the Elohim, or sons of Ēl, hence, we would not be surprised to find Jesus called in Matthew as Immanu-Ēl, which means “Ēl with us”.
    It is a very delicate subject and I kindly invite u to have a look at this book trailer. It will somehow give you an idea about who was the real historical Jesus that the Judeo-Christian culture is trying to hide.
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7zwA8b_A4qI

    Shalam,
    kk

  92. El Koussa says:

    Of course Jesus was not a Jew. His real name is Yāwshu not Yehoshua. Yāwshu means in Aramaic/Phoenician “YĀW saves”, and Yāw is known as the Canaanite/Phoenician god of water mentioned in the Ugaritic tablets. Yehoshua which means YHWH saves is a Judeo-Christian attempt to link Jesus to the Jews. Besides, YHWH is a Jewish derivation from the Phoenician Yāw, yet with a different understanding. The Phoenician Yāw is considered as one of the Elohim, or sons of Ēl, hence, we would not be surprised to find Jesus called in Matthew as Immanu-Ēl, which means “Ēl with us”.
    It is a very delicate subject and I kindly invite u to have a look at this book trailer. It will somehow give you an idea about who was the real historical Jesus that the Judeo-Christian culture is trying to hide.
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7zwA8b_A4qI
    Shalam,
    kk

  93. aswanash alehim says:

    Yh ha waH , YH means Im am Life, Ne ha waH, means i am not life (creator), Ne ha wah ne wah ne means i am not second and not first, im third

    imri

  94. aswanash alehim says:

    Yh ha waH , YH means Im am Life, Ne ha waH, means i am not life (creator), Ne ha wah ne wah ne means i am not second and not first, im third
    imri

  95. luckylarrysilverstein says:

    PROPHET JESUS OF NAZARETH IS INCOMPARABLE
    More than 2000 years ago there was a man born contrary to the laws of nature.
    He was rich, yet for our sake he became poor. This man lived in poverty and was raised in obscurity. He received no college education and never possessed wealth or widespread influence. He never traveled extensively. He seldom crossed the boundary of the country in which he lived.
    But this man’s life has changed the course of history.
    In infancy he startled a king. In childhood he amazed Jewish Talmudic scholars. In manhood he ruled the course of nature—walked on stormy waves and hushed the raging sea to sleep.
    He healed multitudes without medicine and made no charge for his services. He never practiced psychiatry. Yet he has healed more broken hearts than all the doctors far and near.
    He never wrote a book. Yet his life has inspired more books than any other man. He never wrote a song. Yet he has furnished the theme for more songs than all songwriters combined.
    He never founded a college, but all the schools put together cannot boast of having as many students. He never marshaled an army. He never drafted a soldier or fired a gun. Yet no leader ever had more rebels surrender to him without a shot fired.
    Herod could not kill him. He could not be seduced by evil. His enemies could not destroy him. The grave could not hold him. After three days he rose from the dead, alive forevermore!

    HE IS THE EVER PERFECT OBEDIENT PROPHET. HE IS JESUS MESSIAH

    This man stands forth upon the highest pinnacle of heavenly glory, proclaimed by God, as a True Prophet!

    I THANK JESUS FOR MUHAMMAD!

    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF EVIL!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF HATE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF DEPRAVITY!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF DARKNESS!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF SENSUALITY!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRUE PROPHET & A FALSE ONE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF IGNORANCE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN THE FACE OF HEDONISM.
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT HAVE SEE A DEMON IN HUMAN FORM.

    MUHAMMAD WAS THE MOON!
    JESUS IS THE SUN!
    THE MOON CAN ONLY REFLECT THE LIGHT OF THE SUN!
    THE SUN GIVES LIFE!

    JESUS IS THE TRUTH.
    HE IS THE TRUE PROPHET!
    HIS WORDS GIVE LIFE!

    MUHAMMAD WAS THE LIE!
    MUHAMMAD WAS A FALSE PROPHET!
    HIS WORDS BRING DEATH!

    JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH & THE LIFE!
    JESUS IS NOT GOD, HE IS FROM GOD!
    JESUS IS THE WAY TO THE LIFE FORCE – THE CREATOR!
    JESUS BRINGS LIFE, EVEN TO THE DEAD!

    MAY THE LIFE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

  96. luckylarrysilverstein says:

    PROPHET JESUS OF NAZARETH IS INCOMPARABLE
    More than 2000 years ago there was a man born contrary to the laws of nature.
    He was rich, yet for our sake he became poor. This man lived in poverty and was raised in obscurity. He received no college education and never possessed wealth or widespread influence. He never traveled extensively. He seldom crossed the boundary of the country in which he lived.
    But this man’s life has changed the course of history.
    In infancy he startled a king. In childhood he amazed Jewish Talmudic scholars. In manhood he ruled the course of nature—walked on stormy waves and hushed the raging sea to sleep.
    He healed multitudes without medicine and made no charge for his services. He never practiced psychiatry. Yet he has healed more broken hearts than all the doctors far and near.
    He never wrote a book. Yet his life has inspired more books than any other man. He never wrote a song. Yet he has furnished the theme for more songs than all songwriters combined.
    He never founded a college, but all the schools put together cannot boast of having as many students. He never marshaled an army. He never drafted a soldier or fired a gun. Yet no leader ever had more rebels surrender to him without a shot fired.
    Herod could not kill him. He could not be seduced by evil. His enemies could not destroy him. The grave could not hold him. After three days he rose from the dead, alive forevermore!
    HE IS THE EVER PERFECT OBEDIENT PROPHET. HE IS JESUS MESSIAH
    This man stands forth upon the highest pinnacle of heavenly glory, proclaimed by God, as a True Prophet!
    I THANK JESUS FOR MUHAMMAD!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF EVIL!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF HATE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF DEPRAVITY!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF DARKNESS!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF SENSUALITY!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRUE PROPHET & A FALSE ONE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT KNOW THE ESSENCE OF IGNORANCE!
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN THE FACE OF HEDONISM.
    WITHOUT MUHAMMAD I WOULD NOT HAVE SEE A DEMON IN HUMAN FORM.
    MUHAMMAD WAS THE MOON!
    JESUS IS THE SUN!
    THE MOON CAN ONLY REFLECT THE LIGHT OF THE SUN!
    THE SUN GIVES LIFE!
    JESUS IS THE TRUTH.
    HE IS THE TRUE PROPHET!
    HIS WORDS GIVE LIFE!
    MUHAMMAD WAS THE LIE!
    MUHAMMAD WAS A FALSE PROPHET!
    HIS WORDS BRING DEATH!
    JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH & THE LIFE!
    JESUS IS NOT GOD, HE IS FROM GOD!
    JESUS IS THE WAY TO THE LIFE FORCE – THE CREATOR!
    JESUS BRINGS LIFE, EVEN TO THE DEAD!
    MAY THE LIFE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

  97. aswanash alehim says:

    abrham ish the best priest of my father YH

    rev 19:11-19

    im

    aswanash alehim

  98. aswanash alehim says:

    abrham ish the best priest of my father YH
    rev 19:11-19
    im
    aswanash alehim

  99. Kurt says:

    The Promised Seed
    Over two thousand years after man’s expulsion from Paradise, Jehovah told his faithful servant Abraham: “I shall surely multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens . . . and by means of your seed all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves due to the fact that you have listened to my voice.” (Genesis 22:17, 18) This was more than a promise; Jehovah framed it in the form of a legal covenant and backed it by his unbreakable oath. (Genesis 17:1, 2; Hebrews 6:13-15) How remarkable that the Sovereign Lord actually contracted to bless mankind!
    The Abrahamic covenant revealed that the promised Seed would come as a human, for he would be a descendant of Abraham. But who would he be? In time, Jehovah revealed that of Abraham’s sons, Isaac would be a forebear of the Seed. Of Isaac’s two sons, Jacob was selected. (Genesis 21:12; 28:13, 14) Later, Jacob uttered these prophetic words over one of his 12 sons: “The scepter will not turn aside from Judah, neither the commander’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh [“He to Whom It Belongs”] comes; and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong.” (Genesis 49:10) Now it was known that the Seed would be a king, one who descended from Judah!
    http://www.theocraticcollector.com/The_Promised_Seed.pdf

  100. Kurt says:

    The Promised Seed
    Over two thousand years after man’s expulsion from Paradise, Jehovah told his faithful servant Abraham: “I shall surely multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens . . . and by means of your seed all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves due to the fact that you have listened to my voice.” (Genesis 22:17, 18) This was more than a promise; Jehovah framed it in the form of a legal covenant and backed it by his unbreakable oath. (Genesis 17:1, 2; Hebrews 6:13-15) How remarkable that the Sovereign Lord actually contracted to bless mankind!
    The Abrahamic covenant revealed that the promised Seed would come as a human, for he would be a descendant of Abraham. But who would he be? In time, Jehovah revealed that of Abraham’s sons, Isaac would be a forebear of the Seed. Of Isaac’s two sons, Jacob was selected. (Genesis 21:12; 28:13, 14) Later, Jacob uttered these prophetic words over one of his 12 sons: “The scepter will not turn aside from Judah, neither the commander’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh [“He to Whom It Belongs”] comes; and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong.” (Genesis 49:10) Now it was known that the Seed would be a king, one who descended from Judah!
    http://www.theocraticcollector.com/The_Promised_Seed.pdf

  101. aswanash alehim says:

    word shalom is wrong understood in hebrews, and in bible YH said to jews sawioirs jehuda and kabbamel, who sved yishrael from egypt with aron and mosesh

    what YH said wash

    eresh halom sah nektash seh im alehim

    im

  102. aswanash alehim says:

    word shalom is wrong understood in hebrews, and in bible YH said to jews sawioirs jehuda and kabbamel, who sved yishrael from egypt with aron and mosesh
    what YH said wash
    eresh halom sah nektash seh im alehim
    im

  103. aswanash alehim says:

    to kootzie

    iesus had light hair and blue eyes

    alehim not any jew

    and this is to hebrew popes too

    im

    aswanash alehim

    rev 19:11-19

  104. aswanash alehim says:

    to kootzie
    iesus had light hair and blue eyes
    alehim not any jew
    and this is to hebrew popes too
    im
    aswanash alehim
    rev 19:11-19

  105. aswanash alehim says:

    and now im change climate, early spring to north america and bad winter to europe especially to france and germany, and warm to mongolia and north asia

    im

    aswanash alehim

  106. aswanash alehim says:

    and now im change climate, early spring to north america and bad winter to europe especially to france and germany, and warm to mongolia and north asia
    im
    aswanash alehim

  107. aswanash alehim says:

    im asked for my father YH, to get tattosh soon, and they came, and yoy will see those face to face in april 2014

    im

    aswanash alehim

  108. aswanash alehim says:

    im asked for my father YH, to get tattosh soon, and they came, and yoy will see those face to face in april 2014
    im
    aswanash alehim

  109. aswanash alehim says:

    impashnektash seh alehim, pashnektash se ma ashna YH,

    tah ashwel Gapriel

    sah seh wetshkanesh et sehamel seh YH

    alehim seh alehim, elehim seh YH,sahamel seh shnektanesh

    tah terra Son of Man

    ta Gapriel

    Michael Schumacher et Miina Maasola

    ne ta hane, ta eshna

    imparkneshkanesh seh sahnetka et

    Imanuel Kristo ev Eloh

    sawanesh Gapriel

    sah seh sah

    im

    aswanash alehim

  110. aswanash alehim says:

    impashnektash seh alehim, pashnektash se ma ashna YH,
    tah ashwel Gapriel
    sah seh wetshkanesh et sehamel seh YH
    alehim seh alehim, elehim seh YH,sahamel seh shnektanesh
    tah terra Son of Man
    ta Gapriel
    Michael Schumacher et Miina Maasola
    ne ta hane, ta eshna
    imparkneshkanesh seh sahnetka et
    Imanuel Kristo ev Eloh
    sawanesh Gapriel
    sah seh sah
    im
    aswanash alehim

  111. aswanash alehim says:

    education doesn’t matter if yoyr god YH is in yoy, every moment he is with yoy, and want to know how much yoy can bear, and when yoy will broke , he help yoy, he educate yoy that yoy are as humble as he is, only humble artist can create universe and all in it, because he doesn’t care if the result of creation is much better than he is

    im

    aswanash alehim

  112. aswanash alehim says:

    education doesn’t matter if yoyr god YH is in yoy, every moment he is with yoy, and want to know how much yoy can bear, and when yoy will broke , he help yoy, he educate yoy that yoy are as humble as he is, only humble artist can create universe and all in it, because he doesn’t care if the result of creation is much better than he is
    im
    aswanash alehim

  113. kootzie says:

    At the risk of sounding arrogant, seems pretty obvious to me
    then again I don’t have sufficient education and/or credentials
    to cause me to overthink this and adhere to some comfortable position…

    Jesus was a Jew, hung out with Jews, was referred to as rabbi by some,
    knew the Jewish scriptures, and called the hierarchy to task for their moral
    ethical religious failings. That alone was enough to get himself executed.

    The kicker, the essential piece of what Jesus taught is that God is not a
    stern, angry, distant, being who gives forgiveness to His wretched sinful creatures
    only through sufficient ritual devotion / legalistic obedience / self-immolation…

    He taught that people can have a direct relationship with a loving God.

    The organizational construct referred to as “Christianity” is really Judaism 2.0
    Sure there were set-changes, new scripts, a death-defying-superhero whose
    death was demanded by the same old judgemental God1.0, and a new logo/brand
    but the same kind of control-freak-structure of intermediaries who would put in a good word
    for us with the big guy seeing as how we were far too evil to approach HIM without getting fried
    to a crisp was retained. (With the exception of the Creation Spirituality gang who really got it.)

    The assertion that Christ was a Christian is really rich…
    I mean, who put the “Christ” into Christian ?
    and who promptly took it out?

    OK, did I miss anything important?

  114. kootzie says:

    At the risk of sounding arrogant, seems pretty obvious to me
    then again I don’t have sufficient education and/or credentials
    to cause me to overthink this and adhere to some comfortable position…
    Jesus was a Jew, hung out with Jews, was referred to as rabbi by some,
    knew the Jewish scriptures, and called the hierarchy to task for their moral
    ethical religious failings. That alone was enough to get himself executed.
    The kicker, the essential piece of what Jesus taught is that God is not a
    stern, angry, distant, being who gives forgiveness to His wretched sinful creatures
    only through sufficient ritual devotion / legalistic obedience / self-immolation…
    He taught that people can have a direct relationship with a loving God.
    The organizational construct referred to as “Christianity” is really Judaism 2.0
    Sure there were set-changes, new scripts, a death-defying-superhero whose
    death was demanded by the same old judgemental God1.0, and a new logo/brand
    but the same kind of control-freak-structure of intermediaries who would put in a good word
    for us with the big guy seeing as how we were far too evil to approach HIM without getting fried
    to a crisp was retained. (With the exception of the Creation Spirituality gang who really got it.)
    The assertion that Christ was a Christian is really rich…
    I mean, who put the “Christ” into Christian ?
    and who promptly took it out?
    OK, did I miss anything important?

  115. aswanash alehim says:

    iesus wash alehim

    none of yoy

    im

  116. aswanash alehim says:

    iesus wash alehim
    none of yoy
    im

  117. Was Jesus a Jew? | Biblical Backgrounds and Archaeology says:

    […] Biblical Archaeology Society: Was Jesus a Jew? Some people claim that Jesus was a Christian. Some have claimed that he was an Aryan Christian. But in recent decades scholars have been returning to ancient historical settings and discovering the Jewish Jesus. Anthony J. Saldarini’s article “What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus” cautions against wrenching Jesus out of his Jewish world. […]

  118. Was Jesus a Jew? | Biblical Backgrounds and Archaeology says:

    […] Biblical Archaeology Society: Was Jesus a Jew? Some people claim that Jesus was a Christian. Some have claimed that he was an Aryan Christian. But in recent decades scholars have been returning to ancient historical settings and discovering the Jewish Jesus. Anthony J. Saldarini’s article “What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus” cautions against wrenching Jesus out of his Jewish world. […]

  119. Ken Smith says:

    When we try to erase the Jewishness of Jesus we in fact creating our own God. It should be of no surprise that people want their own version of a messiah. Jesus came to the Jews first, but never forget that God the Father loves the entire world.

  120. Ken Smith says:

    When we try to erase the Jewishness of Jesus we in fact creating our own God. It should be of no surprise that people want their own version of a messiah. Jesus came to the Jews first, but never forget that God the Father loves the entire world.

  121. Jeanie C. Crain says:

    It is difficult not to agree with the conclusion of “Was Jesus a Jew”:

    To wrench Jesus out of his Jewish world destroys Jesus and destroys Christianity, the religion that grew out of his teachings. Even Jesus’ most familiar role as Christ is a Jewish role. If Christians leave the concrete realities of Jesus’ life and of the history of Israel in favor of a mythic, universal, spiritual Jesus and an otherworldly kingdom of God, they deny their origins in Israel, their history, and the God who has loved and protected Israel and the church.

    It is, as Schweitzer, a pioneer in historical Jesus studies, concludes, it is the inevitable swing of the pendulum to return to the man in his own day, setting, and culture.

    It [study of the life of Jesus] set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. It loosed the bands by which He had been riveted for centuries to the stony rocks of ecclesiastical doctrine, and rejoiced to see life and movement coming into the figure once more, and the historical Jesus advancing, as it seemed, to meet it. But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own. What surprised and dismayed the theology of the last forty years was that, despite all forced and arbitrary interpretations, it could not keep Him in our time, but had to let Him go. He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

    He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: “Follow thou me!” and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfil for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.
    http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/schweitzer/chapter20.html

    Pasted from

  122. Jeanie C. Crain says:

    It is difficult not to agree with the conclusion of “Was Jesus a Jew”:
    To wrench Jesus out of his Jewish world destroys Jesus and destroys Christianity, the religion that grew out of his teachings. Even Jesus’ most familiar role as Christ is a Jewish role. If Christians leave the concrete realities of Jesus’ life and of the history of Israel in favor of a mythic, universal, spiritual Jesus and an otherworldly kingdom of God, they deny their origins in Israel, their history, and the God who has loved and protected Israel and the church.
    It is, as Schweitzer, a pioneer in historical Jesus studies, concludes, it is the inevitable swing of the pendulum to return to the man in his own day, setting, and culture.
    It [study of the life of Jesus] set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. It loosed the bands by which He had been riveted for centuries to the stony rocks of ecclesiastical doctrine, and rejoiced to see life and movement coming into the figure once more, and the historical Jesus advancing, as it seemed, to meet it. But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own. What surprised and dismayed the theology of the last forty years was that, despite all forced and arbitrary interpretations, it could not keep Him in our time, but had to let Him go. He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.
    He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: “Follow thou me!” and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfil for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.
    http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/schweitzer/chapter20.html
    Pasted from

  123. Gerald Linnins says:

    When Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well, SHE spoke to Jesus and asked, “How is it that YOU being a JEW ask me for a drink?” She obviously recognized him as a Jew. Additionally, reading through the Gospel of John, you see Jesus participating in a multitude of Jewish festivals, attending synagogue, even celebrating Hannakuk – not one of the Lord’s original seven feasts but a totally Jewish celebration of their rescue by Queen Esther from the hatred of Haman.
    Jesus was a Jew. And frequently we are told we are IN HIM…also, we are told by Paul Gentiles have been “grafted in” to Israel not the other way around. We should glory in our roots AND in the tremendous growth and outreach and fruit of all the branches in Christ.

  124. W. Ron Hess says:

    It is good that we question the “given” theology of modern Christianity and look at Jesus in his time — not the mythical time of “Luke,” “John,” and “Acts of the Apostles,” but the time more closely reflected in “Matthew” and “Mark” (stripped of their post-4th century emendations) plus what archaeology can tell. More than that, there was an “Ebionite” sect of Judaeo-Christians who existed until they were persecuted first under Bar-Kokhba in circa 130 AD (for not accepting him as Messiah), and then stamped out as a heresy to near extinction by the successors to Constantine in the late 4th century. The Ebionites believed they were founded by Jesus himself, with their early leaders Jesus’ own kin and disciples, such as James the Just and Peter. They emphasized John the Baptist and regarded Jesus as a human prophet (as opposd to a pagan divinity). Only through the cult of Saul of Tarsus/Paul did Jesus acquire gentile attributes of divinity, and this remained a scorned heretical view for the first 4 decades or more after the crucifixion. When the Jerusalem Church (which was often referred to as “The Poor” in the gospels) was forced to flee to the Jordanian desert during the 70 AD first revolt, presumably becoming the early Ebionites, the Paulists who were scattered throughout the Empire essentially inherited the Christian movement by default — largely because they were eager to separate themselves from Judaism (and the two Jewish revolts) and to accomodate to Rome. As an endnote, Mohammed’s close relative, follower, and mentor Waraqa Ibn Nawfal is said to have been an Ebionite monk, and thus the Ebionite view of Jesus and of other matters seems to have influenced the Koran. Could the Koran be truer to the real Jesus than the Paulist one we have in the “received” New Testament? W. Ron Hess ([email protected])

  125. Gear Clark says:

    Also as for the roles and relationships between Peter & Paul (Kefa & Shaul) they are complex and interwoven. Paul was in submission to the leadership in Jerusalem which Peter was a part of see Acts 15. Also it was Peter who saw the first Gentile convert to Yeshua, Cornelius see Acts 10, which has nothing to do with food btw. All previous non ethnic believers had been proselytes to Judaism, see Acts 6:5, Nikolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. These 4 men all represented types of people who had 2 things in common, they believed in Yeshua by faith turning from dead works, and received the Holy Spirit. The four types of followers were like Peter -Jewish and living in the land of Israel, Paul – Jewish and from Tarsus a Roman citizen, Nikolaus a Greek or Arab from Antioch who had made full conversion to Judaism including circumcision before expressing faith in Yeshua, and Cornelius a righteous Gentile who loved the people of Israel, the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius before Peter could even give the invitation! Wow!
    Soon we meet a 5th type of person who would be welcomed to the family of Yeshua, Timothy born of Jewish Mother and a Greek or Roman father, ( mixed marriage, do we have any of those today?)
    Isn’t interesting Paul circumcises Timothy in Acts 16 after receiving a ruling that Gentiles need not be circumcised just prior in chapter 15, clearly Paul saw Timothy as being Jewish. As you see though the blood of Yeshua does tare the veil it does not remove our individual distinctions but rather makes away for all of us to draw near to God. Each person has a background differing from others but Yeshua is the way to the Father no matter how diverse our circumstances.

  126. Gear Clark says:

    Was Jesus a Jew, He is the King of the Jews! Of the seed of David of the seed of Abraham, see Matt ch 1. for this obvious answer.
    The word Christian is a clerical error in later copies of the Apostolic or Messianic writings which ever you prefer. The terms ” Old & New Testaments” are also figments of revisionist gentile replacement theologists. Please see Copernicus and the Jews by Daniel Gruber. The correct term is covenant, not testament! The bible is full of covenants the “New Covenant” found in Jeremiah 31:33 builds upon all those other covenants ( promises) given earlier and in no way replaces them. Thus the land by God’s promise still belongs to the descendants of Jacob and the Kingship to the seed of David. If these covenants are not honored by God what makes you think that the New Covenant offered through the blood of Yeshua is trustworthy? See Hebrews 10, and verses 10-19 specifically.
    As for the covenant of the law/ instruction (Torah) it is eternal as Yeshua said in Matthew 5:17-18 unless heaven and earth has passed away?
    Christians need to quit misrepresenting what Yeshua said and did. He was completely Jewish meeting all the righteous requirements of the law! What He railed against was two things the elevating of traditions of men to be equalled with the commandments of God and those who pretended to keep outwardly while internally their thoughts were evil!
    Christians should read Romans 11 and pray for the Jewish people in Israel and the nations. Ask God to give you the heart He has for His people that He has promised to restore in the last days. Salt can flavor or make bitter.

  127. WILLIAM BOONE says:

    Have you ever noticed how much ideology controls a supposed “science” like Biblical study and archeology? First part of the century everybody looking for the big Hook-Up with Eleusinian Mysteries or other Hellenistic. Last past of last century more and more scholarys guilt-tripped by being of an Anglo ethnos that murdered Jews–thus, repent! Change your studies course. Now a new form of accent on “Jewish” studies: to attack anything Israeli (Jewish immigrants who bought but mostly terrorized Palastinians into selling cut-rate, then, and now, active harrassment, theft of their olive trees, home, rebuilding on stolen space the Western-style Israeli luxury homes for Jews only. Is this really fair? Is it time for another ideology?

  128. Chris Price says:

    There is no question that Jesus was born a Jew but did he live as a Jew? Jesus came to fulfil the Law so he had to be the perfect Jew, better than the Pharisees or any Jew before him. The question we then need to ask is, did he dispense with his Jewishness once he had completed his ministry and, in a sense, he did because he broke down the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile. Paul says, in Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile. The important thing is that He made peace between the two.
    Crucially, Paul says that the Jews own the legacy and only when they are brought into the fold will the Gentiles have the full measure of the truth. Rediscovering the Jewish Jesus clearly gives us a fuller picture of who the historical Jesus was and what he meant by what he taught.
    It seems to me that Paul translated the Gospel into ‘Christian’ beautifully as did the other letter writers but Jesus was speaking to Jews as a rabbi, not to Christians as a pastor.
    Much of Christian theology that we consider orthodox is a modern and taught in the light of Christian tradition. Not only do we need to read the Gospels in the light of the OT but also in the post-exilic culture into which Jesus was born and in which he was taught, lived and breathed.

  129. Susan Fischer says:

    The question was asked in this article if Jesus was a Jew and also asked if Jesus was a Christian. He was first a Jew but you cannot ask if Jesus or Yeshua was a Christian because the word Christian means “CHRIST IN”, and could only be used after He died and the Gift of holy spirit was given. You cannot have CHRIST IN until it was available. He had to die first. So how can you ask if Jesus was a Christian?
    It is only used three times in the New Testament. Acts 11:26 of which end of the verse states ” And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch”,. The other two are in Acts 26:28 and 1st Peter 4:16.
    That word Christian (CHRIST IN) was not used or available to use until He died and was raised from the dead and then He Jesus commanded his Apostles to wait and not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father (God) for the Power from on High on the day of Pentacost.
    Then those that waited for the Promise received the Gift of God and CHRIST IN which equals Christian.
    This gift is a whole new creation making for a whole new man spiritually and inwardly. That is why it states in Colossians 3:10,11 And have put on the new man (new creation) which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him( God) that created him(Jesus): where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian,bond nor free, but Christ is all, and in all.
    This is called the Church of God.
    1st Corinthians 10:31,32 is clear on the subject and states “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the Glory of God, Give none offence, neither to the Jews,(those still under the law and will be judged by their works of the law) nor to the Gentiles(unbelieving nation) nor to the Church of God.(those that believe and have “Christ In” and are a new creation and no longer under the law but saved by Grace and not by works.)
    Susan

  130. Susan Fischer says:

    The question was asked in this article if Jesus was a Jew and also asked if Jesus was a Christian. He was first a Jew but you cannot ask if Jesus or Yeshua was a Christian because the word Christian means “CHRIST IN”, and could only be used after He died and the Gift of holy spirit was given. You cannot have CHRIST IN until it was available. He had to die first. So how can you ask if Jesus was a Christian?
    It is only used three times in the New Testament. Acts 11:26 of which end of the verse states ” And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch”,. The other two are in Acts 26:28 and 1st Peter 4:16.
    That word Christian (CHRIST IN) was not used or available to use until He died and was raised from the dead and then He Jesus commanded his Apostles to wait and not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father (God) for the Power from on High on the day of Pentacost.
    Then those that waited for the Promise received the Gift of God and CHRIST IN which equals Christian.
    This gift is a whole new creation making for a whole new man spiritually and inwardly. That is why it states in Colossians 3:10,11 And have put on the new man (new creation) which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him( God) that created him(Jesus): where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian,bond nor free, but Christ is all, and in all.
    This is called the Church of God.
    1st Corinthians 10:31,32 is clear on the subject and states “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the Glory of God, Give none offence, neither to the Jews,(those still under the law and will be judged by their works of the law) nor to the Gentiles(unbelieving nation) nor to the Church of God.(those that believe and have “Christ In” and are a new creation and no longer under the law but saved by Grace and not by works.)
    Susan

  131. DANIEL Paul K says:

    Jesus is the most misunderstood person whoever lived on earth. Jews and Christians agree on one thing about Jesus that Jesus claimed he is the messiah. But the most astonishing truth about Jesus is that Jesus didn’t claim he is the messiah. Not only that Jesus told the Jews that they should not believe any individual who claim he is the messiah. He told the Jews no individual would come as the messiah, who or what would come is the kingdom of god.

    Jesus told the Jews to always remain as Jews facing all the persecutions awaiting them and prepared to accept the Kingdom since it is not known when it will come. The contemporary Jews expected Jesus is their messiah but were disappointed that He didn’t overthrow the Romans and declare himself King, like the Messiah was supposed to do. So they rejected Jesus saying he is a failed messiah and failed to understand his message.

    On the other hand, some the Jews found their messiah in Jesus and interpreted words of Jesus and Bible in such a way to make others also to believe Jesus is the messiah and son of God. The Jews who say Jesus is the failed messiah and the Jews later became Christians who believe and preach Jesus is the Christ and son of God both went wrong in understanding the message of Jesus.

    The word messiah has no such meaning as “Savior“. Messiah simply means “anointed one”. But when the Jews started to give a meaning “savior” for the word messiah there they started to give wrong interpretation of Bible words. Yahweh is the only savior of Israel and there is no other savior for Israel according to Bible.

    Jewish belief in a messiah in the sense “savior king” lies in the promise God gave to David. In fact the promise God gave to David is conditional one. And sons of David many times failed to fulfill that condition. so God is not bound to keep his promise. But Jews inadvertently believe that the promise God gave to David is an unconditional one and that belief led the Jews to believe God is bound to provide them a super king “Messiah” from the sons of David. This wrong interpretation of Bible words and belief in a Christ culminated in Christian religion.

    Hence a different interpretation of New Testament is necessary to reveal the real Jesus who questioned the Jewish tradition and who prophesied no individual would come as messiah but who or what would come is the kingdom of God.

    I have written a different interpretation for New Testament titled ” Truth Hidden in the Gospels Revealed “. It is not yet published. I would like to present it before Bible scholars for their examination and would like to get their constructive criticism. If anybody is willing to help me please contact me in the Email address:-

    [email protected]

  132. DANIEL Paul K says:

    Jesus is the most misunderstood person whoever lived on earth. Jews and Christians agree on one thing about Jesus that Jesus claimed he is the messiah. But the most astonishing truth about Jesus is that Jesus didn’t claim he is the messiah. Not only that Jesus told the Jews that they should not believe any individual who claim he is the messiah. He told the Jews no individual would come as the messiah, who or what would come is the kingdom of god.
    Jesus told the Jews to always remain as Jews facing all the persecutions awaiting them and prepared to accept the Kingdom since it is not known when it will come. The contemporary Jews expected Jesus is their messiah but were disappointed that He didn’t overthrow the Romans and declare himself King, like the Messiah was supposed to do. So they rejected Jesus saying he is a failed messiah and failed to understand his message.
    On the other hand, some the Jews found their messiah in Jesus and interpreted words of Jesus and Bible in such a way to make others also to believe Jesus is the messiah and son of God. The Jews who say Jesus is the failed messiah and the Jews later became Christians who believe and preach Jesus is the Christ and son of God both went wrong in understanding the message of Jesus.
    The word messiah has no such meaning as “Savior“. Messiah simply means “anointed one”. But when the Jews started to give a meaning “savior” for the word messiah there they started to give wrong interpretation of Bible words. Yahweh is the only savior of Israel and there is no other savior for Israel according to Bible.
    Jewish belief in a messiah in the sense “savior king” lies in the promise God gave to David. In fact the promise God gave to David is conditional one. And sons of David many times failed to fulfill that condition. so God is not bound to keep his promise. But Jews inadvertently believe that the promise God gave to David is an unconditional one and that belief led the Jews to believe God is bound to provide them a super king “Messiah” from the sons of David. This wrong interpretation of Bible words and belief in a Christ culminated in Christian religion.
    Hence a different interpretation of New Testament is necessary to reveal the real Jesus who questioned the Jewish tradition and who prophesied no individual would come as messiah but who or what would come is the kingdom of God.
    I have written a different interpretation for New Testament titled ” Truth Hidden in the Gospels Revealed “. It is not yet published. I would like to present it before Bible scholars for their examination and would like to get their constructive criticism. If anybody is willing to help me please contact me in the Email address:-
    [email protected]

  133. Paul Hogg says:

    Shalom All,
    BTW there was no person called jesus christ at the time the Messiah was on the Earth, his name was and is and Always will be Yeshua. Yeshua read The Torah and Kept the 7th Day of Creation as a weekly reminder of who Created Everything, Yeshua would have also kept All the Feasts and Festivals from the Torah tooo. I guess If we want to follow the 1 and Only Messiah then we aught to follow the Right 1. Constantine was a Political manipulator not a Believer in the 1True Creator. Yeshua stated The Truth Shall Set Us Free.
    Paul NZ : )

  134. Paul Hogg says:

    Shalom All,
    BTW there was no person called jesus christ at the time the Messiah was on the Earth, his name was and is and Always will be Yeshua. Yeshua read The Torah and Kept the 7th Day of Creation as a weekly reminder of who Created Everything, Yeshua would have also kept All the Feasts and Festivals from the Torah tooo. I guess If we want to follow the 1 and Only Messiah then we aught to follow the Right 1. Constantine was a Political manipulator not a Believer in the 1True Creator. Yeshua stated The Truth Shall Set Us Free.
    Paul NZ : )

  135. Perry Lassiter says:

    No one so far has mentioned the obvious fact that the NT writers native language was Aramaic, closely akin to Hebrew in which they must also have been fluent. Though writing in Greek, they were thinking in Hebrew, so much so that Black translated Matthew into Aramaic. One of the more complicated questions centers on whether this or that Greek word carries Helennic or Hebrew background, perhaps with logos as the prime example. Taken in Greek, it attacks Philo’s idea of the logos being a mad scioentist sort of power that accidentally mixed spirit and matt and made the world, Taken as Hebrew dabhar, it connects with God’s speaking the world into being and the repeated “thus says the Lord.” Jewishness was as much a part of Jesus as was the air he breathed. Some small Greek NT’s have OT quotes in boldface. Looking at any gospel page you can easily see how many of Jesus’s pronouncements were OT quotes!

  136. Perry Lassiter says:

    No one so far has mentioned the obvious fact that the NT writers native language was Aramaic, closely akin to Hebrew in which they must also have been fluent. Though writing in Greek, they were thinking in Hebrew, so much so that Black translated Matthew into Aramaic. One of the more complicated questions centers on whether this or that Greek word carries Helennic or Hebrew background, perhaps with logos as the prime example. Taken in Greek, it attacks Philo’s idea of the logos being a mad scioentist sort of power that accidentally mixed spirit and matt and made the world, Taken as Hebrew dabhar, it connects with God’s speaking the world into being and the repeated “thus says the Lord.” Jewishness was as much a part of Jesus as was the air he breathed. Some small Greek NT’s have OT quotes in boldface. Looking at any gospel page you can easily see how many of Jesus’s pronouncements were OT quotes!

  137. Frank Hamrick says:

    I was raised in a Christian home, my Dad was a pastor by the time I was 6. I personally accepted “Jesus” as my Lord and Savior when I was 5. Since that time I have given my life to the study of the OT & NT. Not for one moment have I ever thought of Jesus as anything other than Jewish. I don’t know how any “Christian” could see Jesus as anything other than the promised Messiah of Israel, fulfilling all of the requirements for the Messiah, and bringing to fulfillment all that the Jewish law pointed towards. Was Jesus Jewish? Of course. Who would think otherwise?

  138. Frank Hamrick says:

    I was raised in a Christian home, my Dad was a pastor by the time I was 6. I personally accepted “Jesus” as my Lord and Savior when I was 5. Since that time I have given my life to the study of the OT & NT. Not for one moment have I ever thought of Jesus as anything other than Jewish. I don’t know how any “Christian” could see Jesus as anything other than the promised Messiah of Israel, fulfilling all of the requirements for the Messiah, and bringing to fulfillment all that the Jewish law pointed towards. Was Jesus Jewish? Of course. Who would think otherwise?

  139. CLAYTON STONER says:

    Only in academia would they even have to come up with a question like this……

  140. CLAYTON STONER says:

    Only in academia would they even have to come up with a question like this……

  141. Paul Shunamon says:

    Was there really any question?
    Paul S

  142. Paul Shunamon says:

    Was there really any question?

    Paul S

  143. Chavoux Luyt says:

    PS. I find it very interesting that Alfred Edersheim in his “The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah“, tries his best to show the uniqueness of Jesus in the first century context and yet cannot remove Him from his Jewishness.

  144. Chavoux Luyt says:

    PS. I find it very interesting that Alfred Edersheim in his “The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah“, tries his best to show the uniqueness of Jesus in the first century context and yet cannot remove Him from his Jewishness.

  145. Chavoux Luyt says:

    Of course Jesus was Jew! I find it difficult to imagine anybody reading the New Testament without realizing this. Even the so-called “gentile” Paul/Saul identifies himself as a Hebrew of Hebrews of the tribe of Benjamin (Philipians 3)(b.t..w. the name change Saul -> Paul didn’t occur after his conversion, but only when he started to preach to the gentiles (in Greek), suggesting that it was simply his Greek name in contrast to his Hebrew name… cf. also Mark John (Markos, Jochanan Acts 15:37)). Moreover, the very term “Christ” (Annointed) is simply a translation of “Mashiach” and have no meaning in a getile context. It can only be understood in the context of the promises given to the Jews in their Scriptures.
    @Gerald: There are pretty good arguments to be made that the term in the context of the gospels refer to the Judeans (the Jews living in the Southern area) in contrast to the Galileans. I would suggest that a major reason for the gentile Christians later distancing themselves from the Jews were the result of the Jewish rebellions (esp. the Bar Kochba rebellion which probably estranged even the Jewish followers of Jesus as Messiah). The Christians were already being persecuted for turning their backs on the pagan gods (and worshiping the God of Israel instead), no need to appear to sympathise with a rebellion as well!

  146. Chavoux Luyt says:

    Of course Jesus was Jew! I find it difficult to imagine anybody reading the New Testament without realizing this. Even the so-called “gentile” Paul/Saul identifies himself as a Hebrew of Hebrews of the tribe of Benjamin (Philipians 3)(b.t..w. the name change Saul -> Paul didn’t occur after his conversion, but only when he started to preach to the gentiles (in Greek), suggesting that it was simply his Greek name in contrast to his Hebrew name… cf. also Mark John (Markos, Jochanan Acts 15:37)). Moreover, the very term “Christ” (Annointed) is simply a translation of “Mashiach” and have no meaning in a getile context. It can only be understood in the context of the promises given to the Jews in their Scriptures.

    @Gerald: There are pretty good arguments to be made that the term in the context of the gospels refer to the Judeans (the Jews living in the Southern area) in contrast to the Galileans. I would suggest that a major reason for the gentile Christians later distancing themselves from the Jews were the result of the Jewish rebellions (esp. the Bar Kochba rebellion which probably estranged even the Jewish followers of Jesus as Messiah). The Christians were already being persecuted for turning their backs on the pagan gods (and worshiping the God of Israel instead), no need to appear to sympathise with a rebellion as well!

  147. Helen Spalding says:

    Judaism of the first century is not inherently evil, bad, or nasty. It needed refocusing and redirection which Jesus provided as Rabbi.
    Paul makes it abundantly clear that the Gospel is the the Jew first and then the Gentile until all the world acknowledges that Jesus is God with Us. Furthermore, Gentiles are grafted into the stock of faithful Abraham. If we who are grafted in are not faithful in return, we can be loped off just as easily.
    God is not finished w/the Jews nor has He given them to destruction. His word to them and to us in the Torah is plain as are the words in the prophets. Whoever curses Israel will find the curse back on him/herself.
    Without being steeped in the Old Testament, the teaching of Jesus and subsequently of His apostles, incl Paul, makes no sense whatsoever. Jesus was a reformer and did not dismiss Judaism of His day. He had harsh words to the leadership who should know better and did no better! He busted the chops of the hypocrites, not the average Jew. He came to save the lost sheep of Israel — not the Gentiles in His earthly ministry and said as much.
    However, He extended God’s grace to a few Gentiles (goyim) when He was asked in faith.
    The Judaism of His day had become over ritualized. It was the ritual that seemed to matter to the powers that were. Jesus redirected them to the relationship — corporate and individual.
    It is hard for us humans to focus on two things at once — we tend to throw the baby out w/the bath water…we go for the ritual to the exclusion of the relationship. We go whole hog for the personal intense relationship at the expense of an outward focus of ministry. We denigrate ritual in favor of only a powerful relationship.
    Jesus calls us to both in BALANCE. If we are in Christ, we are also part of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If we lose sight of that, we lose sight of why we were grafted in and the corporate nature of our life in Christ suffers damage.
    Jesus practiced the ritual of His day at the Temple in Jerusalem. He practiced the ritual of His day at the local synagogue. He also practiced the relationship and discipline of prayer before He met the needs of the sons and daughters of Israel.
    We are called to emulate His example to the best of our ability. So, Christian, steep yourself in the Old Testament, knowing that is it also a love letter fm God to you as well as to the Jew! Ruth put it well — your people are MY people!

  148. Helen Spalding says:

    Judaism of the first century is not inherently evil, bad, or nasty. It needed refocusing and redirection which Jesus provided as Rabbi.

    Paul makes it abundantly clear that the Gospel is the the Jew first and then the Gentile until all the world acknowledges that Jesus is God with Us. Furthermore, Gentiles are grafted into the stock of faithful Abraham. If we who are grafted in are not faithful in return, we can be loped off just as easily.

    God is not finished w/the Jews nor has He given them to destruction. His word to them and to us in the Torah is plain as are the words in the prophets. Whoever curses Israel will find the curse back on him/herself.

    Without being steeped in the Old Testament, the teaching of Jesus and subsequently of His apostles, incl Paul, makes no sense whatsoever. Jesus was a reformer and did not dismiss Judaism of His day. He had harsh words to the leadership who should know better and did no better! He busted the chops of the hypocrites, not the average Jew. He came to save the lost sheep of Israel — not the Gentiles in His earthly ministry and said as much.

    However, He extended God’s grace to a few Gentiles (goyim) when He was asked in faith.

    The Judaism of His day had become over ritualized. It was the ritual that seemed to matter to the powers that were. Jesus redirected them to the relationship — corporate and individual.

    It is hard for us humans to focus on two things at once — we tend to throw the baby out w/the bath water…we go for the ritual to the exclusion of the relationship. We go whole hog for the personal intense relationship at the expense of an outward focus of ministry. We denigrate ritual in favor of only a powerful relationship.

    Jesus calls us to both in BALANCE. If we are in Christ, we are also part of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If we lose sight of that, we lose sight of why we were grafted in and the corporate nature of our life in Christ suffers damage.

    Jesus practiced the ritual of His day at the Temple in Jerusalem. He practiced the ritual of His day at the local synagogue. He also practiced the relationship and discipline of prayer before He met the needs of the sons and daughters of Israel.

    We are called to emulate His example to the best of our ability. So, Christian, steep yourself in the Old Testament, knowing that is it also a love letter fm God to you as well as to the Jew! Ruth put it well — your people are MY people!

  149. Judi Jones says:

    An understanding of the Jewish community and the fact that Jesus was a Jew and the Apostles were also Jewish is key to a full understanding of Scripture. When they spoke of Scripture, they were referring to the Tanahk, the Old Testament, the new Testament had not been written yet, so in order to understand all of the teachings, one must look at it from the Jewish mindset of the time

  150. Judi Jones says:

    An understanding of the Jewish community and the fact that Jesus was a Jew and the Apostles were also Jewish is key to a full understanding of Scripture. When they spoke of Scripture, they were referring to the Tanahk, the Old Testament, the new Testament had not been written yet, so in order to understand all of the teachings, one must look at it from the Jewish mindset of the time

  151. Gerald Rabinovitch says:

    Without a Christian background, reading the gospels gives a clear answer that Jesus was a Jew. The gospels, however, perhaps because of subsequent editing or speaking to foreign audiences, already distanced Jesus from his origins by speaking of “the Jews”.

  152. Gerald Rabinovitch says:

    Without a Christian background, reading the gospels gives a clear answer that Jesus was a Jew. The gospels, however, perhaps because of subsequent editing or speaking to foreign audiences, already distanced Jesus from his origins by speaking of “the Jews”.

  153. Susan Fischer says:

    Was Christianity a Jewish sect?
    They were first called Christians in Antioch, this was after Christ died and rose from the dead and was seated at the right hand of God. They were called Christians then because they kept proclaiming “Christ in you” “Christ in you” which was being born again and having God and Christ in you.
    Is that a Jewish sect? No! After you have Christ in you there is no more Jew or Gentile but one body through Christ Jesus.

  154. Susan Fischer says:

    Was Christianity a Jewish sect?
    They were first called Christians in Antioch, this was after Christ died and rose from the dead and was seated at the right hand of God. They were called Christians then because they kept proclaiming “Christ in you” “Christ in you” which was being born again and having God and Christ in you.
    Is that a Jewish sect? No! After you have Christ in you there is no more Jew or Gentile but one body through Christ Jesus.

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