2007-04-30 02:23:35 · 17 answers · asked by shawnb2480 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Matthew 1 and Luke 2 trace his ancestry to Judah, therefore he was Jewish by birth. -yk
2007-04-30 02:28:43 · answer #1 · answered by Yaakov 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
If you're looking for that exact phrase, you won't find it, because the Bible was NOT a "Christianity for Dummies" book. Two of the Gospels give explicit genealogies showing Jesus was Jewish. Jesus had a fully Jewish mother of the Cohen priestly lineage, which is the purest and most Jewish of Jewish lineages. He states numerous times that He came to save the flock of Israel. The hundreds of contextual proofs are self-evident enough not to require any other statement on this subject.
2007-04-30 09:28:02 · answer #2 · answered by darth_maul_8065 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes he was born Jewish to a Jewish mother the name Jesus is Greek for Yeshua/ Joshua . At age 12 he went to the temple which was a Jewish custom of the time. He was probably taught the Torah at a local synagogue . He referred many times to the old prophets and the law and customs .
2007-04-30 09:34:57 · answer #3 · answered by jack lewis 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All things aside -- He was allowed in the temple. This means he was Jewish. The Jews of the area had a standing agreement with the local Roman administrators that respected the Temple's status as a place holy to Jews and thus not a place the Romans entered without just cause.
Contrary to common perception, the Jews were not a hated people at the time of Jesus's life and death. The Pharisees and the Pontius of the area maintained cordial relations. The full hatred formed a few years later as multiple claimants to the messiahship convinced the people to revolt, and the area's Jewish population was crushed and the Temple destroyed.
2007-04-30 09:28:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Luke 2
4And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
Luke 2:41
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Luke 22:11
And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Matthew 5:17
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Does the Bible say "Jesus was Jewish"? No
But his parents followed all the customs and brought Jesus up this way. Jesus was often found in the synagogue. He himself took part in passover. From the passages above I think it is clear that Jesus was Jewish and was here to fulfill the Jewish promises and prophecies and to extend those promises to all mankind.
2007-04-30 09:34:17 · answer #5 · answered by linnea13 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
He was born in a Jewish family and went often to the temple and celebrated the jewish holidays. He was cut. etc.
But even if he was a jew, he said that the jewish believe was not the whole truth and so he gave his lectures.
But you cannot understand christianity if you don't know the jewish belief. The greatest part of the bible are jewish texts.
2007-04-30 09:35:25 · answer #6 · answered by vital_moors 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
http://www.leaderu.com/theology/jesusjew.html
Jesus was raised a Jew
From his birth, as is indicated by his very Jewish genealogy, Jesus was raised a Jew. He was circumcised the eighth day (Luke 2.21), bore a common Jewish name, Yeshua, 'he [God] saves' (Matthew 1.21). In fact, Yeshua was the fifth most common Jewish name, 4 out of the 28 Jewish High-Priests in Jesus' time were called Yeshua.
2007-04-30 09:39:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus' genealogy is given in two places in Scripture, Matthew chapter 1 and Luke chapter 3, verses 23-38. Matthew traces the genealogy from Jesus to Abraham. Luke traces the genealogy from Jesus to Adam.
2007-04-30 10:33:26 · answer #8 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Paul.....was not.....chosen by Jesus, Paul didn't even meet Jesus while he was alive. Paul was a Roman although he tried to fool everybody to believe he was Jew. And, Christianity, the way we know it today, is actually based on the teachings of Paul, not on the teachings of Jesus. So, Jesus was not a Christian.
2. The prophet Muhammad, who founded the Muslim religion, was born on 570 AD and died on 632 AD, some six centuries ...after....Jesus. So, NO WAY Jesus was a Muslim, because Islam didn't exist by Jesus' time.
3. Jesus was not a pagan, that's of common knowledge.
Jesus was a Jew, and all the apostoles Jesus chose "by himself" were Jews.
2007-04-30 09:57:37 · answer #9 · answered by Millie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many places, but not Jewish, but rather of the tribe of Judah.
For example son of David of the tribe of Judah.
Luk 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
2007-04-30 09:31:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋