Wasnt Jesus himself a Jew?

Question

If this is so,was he persecuted or betrayed by Jews ,if so why?

serious answers only please

Answer 1

Yes, Jesus was Jewish. Christianity (as the name suggests) is the religion based on Christ and it was founded after his lifetime. The Jewish priests of the day persecuted him because he challenged their ritualistic ways, and pulled them up on outward behavious versus true inner belief. Their was also great tension between the Jews and the Roman Empire, and Jesus unfortunatley aggravated this by being proclaimed as King of the Jews - the Romans did not take kindly to a Jew bringing himself to the same level as Caesar, and the High Priests tried to diffuse the situation by killing Jesus, thus preventing any further riots and furor.

Answer 2

He was a Jew, and he was not persecuted by Jews. He was however tried and convicted by a Jewish court of heresy because of the things he was preaching. Jewish tradition was very strong back then and still is today, but then it was seen as a threat. He was basically telling people to give up the Jewish laws and that he was making a new covenant, and in the Jewish Torah it states that "no letter of the law shall be changed." When he started claiming that he was a messiah and a king of the Jews and the son of G-d they started to get angry, for that is blasphemy. Of course you know he was also tried by the Romans and found guilty and crucified.

But on to the persecution part: he was not really persecuted by Jews, or by anyone for that matter. The Pharisees (and all other Jews) at that time were closely following the Torah and living in a very religious society. They also believed that if one Jew commits a sin, all of Israel sins, so that person must repent. He, to the order of the religious law back then, was constantly sinning by doing work on Shabbat and other things, so that was a reason they didn't like him and spoke out against him.

You will also note that many of his followers were Jewish, even after his death. It was when he was declared divine by courts that real Jews stopped following him, because in the Torah it states that G-d shall send no son, and that no letter of the Torah shall be changed.

He was betrayed by a Jew, Judas, but that was for money and not so much because he was sinning. In fact, the Bible even states that nobody else betrayed him, except the one who denied him thrice, but even he was forgiven in the end. All the rest of his friends stuck with him, and they were all Jews.

Answer 3

Just as I am a Jew. He was persecuted by the Jews, because the Jews were expecting a "political" saviour, and He did not present to be anything but a "religious" nut or heretic. He drew their ire from the start, when, at the beginning of Passover, He "cleansed" the temple by throwing out the money changers. The high priests etc were on the "take" and this was an affront to G-d. He was dogged throughout His ministry for this and for His teaching and practices which they claimed violated Jewish law.

Answer 4

Jesus was arrested, tried, convicted and executed under Roman law, this is shown full well in the method of execution - crucifixion. Judaism did not impose the death penalty for blasphemy, stoning would have been an appropriate punishment for this crime and would have been applied WITHOUT Roman involvement under purely Judaic administration. Claiming to be a King or Messiah likewise would not have warranted much attention from a Roman administration, there were countless saviours, endless Prophets and cult leaders in an array of cults and sects, ranging from Pagan through all shades of Judaism. The security of Rome, the Pax Romana, was all that Rome cared about. Jesus was tried for crimes against the state, ( sedition) the punishment for sedition was execution by crucifixion, as recorded for Spartacus`s failed revolt in which upwards of 6,000 slaves were crucified under Roman law , for crimes against the State. There are many reasons why the "Jews" are commonly blamed for this, the answer will not be found in the Bible, but in historical research, which few ever undertake, preferring the proto-Christian fiction.

Answer 5

Yes. Jesus was a practicing Jewish male. He was persecuted by and betrayed by some of His fellow Jews, the Romans, the pagans, and Greeks.

Each of these groups also had supporters of Jesus Christ. Mary, His mother, Mary Magdalene, Saint John, Saint Peter, the Roman Soldier, Nicodemus, and many many others.

Each of us persecuted and betrayed Jesus through our sinfulness and failure to live in His love. He came to redeem the world from sin.

Answer 6

Amazed at some of the responses - r people thick or what ?- YES HE WAS A JEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And so what?
The apostles and Paul also called themselves Jews (apart from the non-jewish ones). If you are christian in any way then your spiritual heritage is jewish because that is what Islam and Christainity were based on.

Was he betrayed and persecuted by Jews - yes, but hanged by Romans (or modern day Italians). So why not start a witch hunt against the Italians.

More christians were killed by the Romans than by any jewish people.

Now, for your next anti-anyone- who -is- not -white question....

Answer 7

Yes, Jesus was a Jew one who grew up practicing the Jewish Religion. Yes Jesus was persecuted mostly for his claim to be one with God as His Son. He also was hated out of his popularity by the crowds by the Religious leaders of his day.

Answer 8

yes Jesus was a Jew.
He was preaching and teaching and healing people and performing miracles and getting quite a following. He made the religious leaders nervous. He poiinted out what was wrong with the religious system and getting people 'back to basics' - ie true religion isn't about following all the rules and regulations but loving God with all their heart, mind and soul and loving their neighbour as themselves.
then when people started asking if he was the Messiah (the long awaited saviour of the Jewish people) and his answers indicated that he was, and that he was also the Son of God he upset the religious leaders even more, and they set about tricking him into blasphemy, which would deserve the death penalty.
He was betrayed by one of his close followers, Judas, who may or may not have thought he was doing the right thing. If he believed that jesus was the Messiah he would have also believed that that meant leading the people into freedom from the Romans who were occupying their country.
Jesus was found guilty by the Jewish court of blasphemy. They couldn't execute him becaus of being under Roman rule so they sent him to Pilate (the roman in charge). He didnt find him guilty but becuase it was festival time the custom was to let a prisoner go free. he offered jesus and another person, Barrabas, to the crowd. The crowd chose Barrabas (probably stirred up by those out to get Jesus - we all know how crowds can be led). So Pilate had to execute jesus, but he washed his hands of Jesus' blood.
So this is why it has been handed down in history that it was the Jews who killed Jesus. I hope you can see that it wasn't as simple as people make out. there were politics at play as well as religion. A powerful mixture then, as now.

Answer 9

yes he was a Jew, and the Jews betrayed him because they wanted all the mesianic prophecies to be completed in their time, not later. They also wanted a physical king that would give the Jews power over the other governments. When they saw this did not happen, they killed him.

Answer 10

Jesus was a jew. If the Jews that persecuted Jesus Knew who He really was they never would of crucified Him.