Jesus was raised Jewish. His mother was Jewish. Therefore he was Jewish. He went to temple, he was born in the City of David… A Jewish town.
I think arguing whether or not Jesus was a jew is beyond silly. They called him Rabbi which is a term for a Jewish Teacher. You wouldn’t call a Gentile teacher a Rabbi.
Please just go ask the Priest at you Parish if Jesus was Jewish or not. He will tell you.
I didn’t say it bothered you so I was not presumptuous. I know a lot of people that it bothers if you dare say that Christianity came out of Jewish roots. Why it bothers people is beyond me.
If you are talking to someone that knows History and say things like King David was a great Catholic they are going to think you are dumb.
Before I believed in God I talked to many Protestants and Catholics and I thought both were ignorant of their beliefs. When I could tell them more about the history of there churches and more about what the Bible said I wondered why they believed what they believed. As I studied the Bible and read more and more on the History of the Church I began to see wow this had to be God, because the people running it did a lot of stupid things, and still do. Yet it survives.
I talk to a lot of Atheists and Agnostics, who know history. If I go off saying things Like Jesus was a Christian they will not be willing to listen cause they tune you out. There response will be Well the term Christian wasn’t used till 50 AD in Antioch it means little Christian how could Jesus be a little version of himself. Or the Term Catholic wasn’t used till 103 AD how could he be that if that wasn’t even known at the time.
If Christianity was not Jewish what would Jesus tell the Apostles to go first to Judea then the rest of the world. Why would Peter and Paul always say go first to the Jew then the Gentile?
If Jesus was not a Jew how could he be King of the Jews?
Now Some Bible Verses:
Matthew 2
1After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi[a] from the east came to Jerusalem 2and asked, “**Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”
3When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ[c] was to be born. 5"In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
6” ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.’[d]"
Matthew 27:11
Jesus Before Pilate ] Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied.
Mark 15:2
2"Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate.
** “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied.
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John 4
Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
1The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, 2although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4Now he had to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11"Sir," the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”
13Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17"I have no husband," she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19"Sir," the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”
Matthew 1
The Genealogy of Jesus
1A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham.
To be the Messiah he had to be in the lineage of King David. A Jewish King.
This is a thread on Purgatory so lets get back to that.**
I found your remark about “bribing” God as offensive. I did give you an answer, The Communion of Saints. I’ll elaborate in another post, IF YOU CARE TO READ WITH AN OPEN HEART.