Right....

Remember how Jesus shared his teachings to 12 Chinese people... Oh, no... wait... They weren't Chinese...

They were... Jews...

Well, how about that?

Here are some Biblical statements about Jesus being a Jew:

• (1) "Then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place" Es4:14 is taken as a prophecy of God's Messianic intervention; "Place" is taken as meaning "God".

• (2) "Ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you" Zc 8:23 is also a Messianic prophecy, such as when the sick woman took hold of Jesus's Jewish tallith prayer shawl.

• (3)-(21) "King of the Jews" Mt2:2, 27:11, 29, 37, Mk15:2, 9, 12, 18, 26, Lk23:3, 37, 38, Jn18:33, 39, 19:3, 19, 21, 21, and "He saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!" Jn19:14 Jesus is King of the Jews.

• (22) "And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant" Lk7:3 shows Gentiles didn't approach Jesus as a Gentile but through Jewish leadership.

• (23)-(26) "And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem" Jn2:13, and "After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem" Jn5:1, and "Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing" Jn18:21, and "There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand" Jn19:42 Jesus kept Jewish custom even in death.

• (27)-(28) "After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized" Jn3:22, and "And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree" Ac10:39 Jesus was of the Jewish nation.

• (29) "How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans" Jn4:9 Samaritan identifies Jesus as Jewish.

• (30) "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews" Jn4:22 Jesus identifies as Jewish.

• (31) "Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?" Jn18:35 Pilate identifies Jesus as Jewish.

• (32) "Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury" Jn 19:40 Jesus was buried as a Jew, as he had arranged with Nicodemus.

• (33)-(37) "Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ" Ac18:5, and "For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ" Ac18:22, and "For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God" 1Co 1:22-24 Jesus is the Jewish Messiah.

• (38) "Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law" Ac21:20 literal myriads (over 30,000) of Jews, in Jerusalem alone, believe Jesus is the Jewish Messiah.

• (39) "For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes" Ac24:5 the Nazarene (Christian) sect was Jewish with a Jewish leader.

• (40) "While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all" Ac25:8 preaching Jesus's life was perfectly aligned with Jewish law.

• (41)-(42) "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God" Ro 2:28-29 Jesus is also Jewish by inward circumcision.

The Bible says in 42 places that Jesus was born King of the Jews, was the Jewish Deliverance out of Elsewhere, was the Jew held by the nations, kept Jewish customs, was a citizen of the Jewish nation, identified as a Jew, was called a Jew, was ruled in court as a Jew, died a Jew, was the Jewish Messiah, had myriads of Jewish believers, led a Jewish sect, followed Jewish law, and was a spiritual Jew too.

This one is a repost that was previously analyzed and shown faulty in every salient detail. I'll report back in this comment about it.

Here it is.

First error: Tribal affiliation in Jesus's day was patrilineal, and both his adoptive father and his mother were descended from Judah patrilineally, so he had no tribal affiliation with Levi. The source quoted is speculative and contradicts Heb. 7:13-14, "For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe [than Levi], of which no man gave attendance at the altar. For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood."

Second error: Edomite descendants are not the people now called Jews. Josephus stated that 20,000 Edomites (Idumeans) were decimated alongside the Jews of Jerusalem in the 68-70 AD siege, and the people is lost to history after that. There is no Scripture or history that gives any indication that "Jew" was ever a demonym of Edom at large; these peoples remained distinguished even though some intermarriages led to some descendants having both heritages.

Third error: The word "Hebrewism" is the modern invention; it only exists as a later variant of "Hebraism", a word first attested 1570 with linguistic rather than religious meaning. If Jesus can be said to have a religion at all, it would have been that translated as "the Jews' religion" in Gal. 1:13-14, "Ioudaismos" or literally just Judaism. If we retroactively apply "Hebrewism" to the Israelite religion before 586 BC, and include all Hebrews (descendants of Eber), it would include Edomites too, because Edom son of Isaac was descended from Eber too! Though the Hebrews/Hapiru (including many peoples besides Israel) were noted for separatist monotheism, very few of them besides Israel picked up the Mosaic religion of the Tanakh (Old Testament). If any "ism" were to be applied retroactively to this period and practice, it would be best called Yahwism, worship of Yahweh; but I hesitate to say what the original worshippers would've called it.

Fourth error: Judaism is not based on the Talmud, which was completed 500 AD; the Judaism from 586 BC on was based on the Torah and the oral tradition that continued to develop.

Fifth error: Judaism was not in Jesus's day identical to "tradition of the elders", which meant the Pharisaic interpretation, among others; Sadducees and Essenes had their own traditions under other names.

Sixth error: The people returning from Babylon were the only descendants who upheld Torah as continuation of Judah; there were not two groups of "Hebrewist Israelites" and "Judaist Jews". In fact the division attested in history is between followers of the Nasi and followers of the Ab-Beth-Din (two political parties called the Zugoth), which resolved into Pharisee and Sadducee, not into "Judah and Israel".

Seventh error: There were no "rabbis" at all until the generation of Jesus, and he is among the first to have borne the title. While it is true that a true-Torah tradition and an oral-dependence tradition are separable within the one practice of the day, Judaism, and that these two led to Messianic Jews (Christians) and rabbinical Jews parting ways, this was never a matter of "Jewish" versus "Israelite" religion, as even Christians today continue the mantle of being "spiritual Jews" and children of Abraham by faith.

Eighth error: To whatever degree Edomites converted into the Israelite Judaism that then existed, they joined the people already called Jews (Yehudi) since before the Assyrian captivity (and Judah ever before that). By conversion they were accepted as full Jews; one people does not simply turn into another by accepting a little intermarriage.

Ninth error: Nobody at that time would have counted "Jews" as a category separate from Israelites; when Jesus distinguishes from Israel he naturally separates out Gentiles (non-Israelites) and Samaritans (half-Israelites who had maintained a separate identity), not Jews. There had not been a kingdom called Israel for centuries; all hope of restoring Israel rested in the Jewish people through their Jewish messiah.

Tenth error: Jesus never distinguished disbelief among the Jews on the basis of race, but always on individual response. At the end of the passage quoted, John 10:41-42, many of those Jews who heard him believed in him!

Eleventh error: John 8:33 doesn't prove all Jews are Edomites, because Edomites were vassals in slavery to Israel/Judah, from the time Saul conquered them (1 Sam. 14:47) to the time they revolted under Jehoram (2 Chr. 21:8), let alone the Hyrcanus arrangement. The passage rather means those individuals had never been in slavery, and it is reproduced to show how forgetful they were of confessing every year at Passover that their people had been in slavery. (The discrepancy was so obvious to John as not to need commentary.)

So the categories in this article are so far from those of the Bible that I'd be surprised if any true students of the Bible would hold to it for more than a moment. Do you believe the Scriptures?