Jesus was a Jew. This fact slips past most casual readers of the New Testament, but it is crucial to understanding Jesus and the book written about him—the Bible. Unfortunately, we are far removed from the ancient world of Roman-occupied Judea and the life of Israel in which Jesus lived...
1. (Bible) Also called: Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth ?4 bc–?29 ad, founder of Christianity, born in Bethlehem and brought up in Nazareth as a Jew. He is believed by Christians to be the Son of God and to have been miraculously conceived by the Virgin Mary, wife of Joseph. ...
But there is an obvious advantage for the Jews to go along with the claim that Jesus was a Palestinian — after all, if Jesus was a Palestinian and not a Jew, then their jewish ancestors were entirely justified in rejecting Christ as their messiah and calling for his murder even. ...
Remember: Burden is a monumental honorable thing from GOD Almighty. Burden was used for Noah and other Prophets' tasks as well. Visit section #2 in the following article about "2- The honorable burdens throughout the Bible". Notice in the following honorable burden how GOD Almighty will come...
Elliott, “Jesus the Israelite Was Neither a ‘Jew’ nor a ‘Christian,’” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 5, no. 2 (2007): 119–54;Elliott JH 2007. Jesus the Israelite was neither a `Jew' nor a `Christian': On correcting misleading nomenclature. Journal for the study...
24 (This was before John was put in prison.) 25 An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you...
7 A Samaritan woman came to the well to get some water. Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” 8 (This happened while Jesus’ followers were in town buying some food.)9 The woman said, “I am surprised that you ask me for a drink. You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan...
Jesus was a Jew, as were all the apostles. Thus the earliest Christianity is in fact a movement within Judaism; the very acknowledgment of Jesus as “the Christ” professes that he is the fulfillment of the promises originally made to the Hebrew patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Ch...
“But their central claims about Jesus as a historical figure—a Jew, with followers, executed on orders of the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius—are borne out by later sources with a completely different set of biases.” Within a few decades...
Second, there’s a new debate about the identity of the historical Jesus. Some critics of the Israel-Hamas war aredeclaringthat Jesus was a “Palestinian Jew,” an assertion that at least onebiblical scholarsays is false and reprises an ugly historical pattern of “using Jesus against Jews on...