Was Jesus a Jew?

Was Jesus Christ identified in the Bible as a Jew?

Matthew 2:23 and came and resided in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, “He shall be called a Nazarene.”

Matthew 26:69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a certain servant-girl came to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.”

Jesus was called a Nazarene and a Galilean.

Note: Jesus was from the tribe of Judah, and the family line was from the House of David.

It is very important to understand that Jesus Christ is from the tribe of Judah and not the ‘nation of Judah’.

Matthew (chapter one) lists the genealogies of the legal heirs to the throne of David.

Luke (chapter three) lists the genealogies of the personal decent of Jesus Christ.

Jesus was called Rabbi. What does Rabbi mean?

John 1:38 And Jesus turned, and beheld them following, and said to them, “What do you seek?” And they said to Him, “Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?”

John 3:2 this man came to Him by night, and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

Note: Rabbi in the Bible means: teacher.

A Jewish Rabbi is recognized as one that has been ‘ordained’ in Jewish religion and is a teacher in Jewish religious instruction and/or studies.

A Biblical Rabbi was not Jewish, and was never referring that one was Jewish to be called Rabbi. A Christian ‘priest’ does not mean that he is the same as an Israelite ‘priest’.

Christ did not have a religion. He taught the Scriptures as they were written, and not as he interpreted them.

Jesus constantly rebuked the religious leaders for their apostasy, and apathy for the Laws of God. These religious leaders were in favor of the traditions of the Elders.

The traditions of the Elders are not the Old Testament Scriptures.

It is a fact that the words Jew, Jews, Jewish, Jewess, or Judaism cannot be found in any Hebrew or Greek text of the Bible.

It is a deliberate mistranslation in any Holy Bible.

Many Theologians, Bible interpreters, translators, preachers and teachers, assume that the Hebrews, Israelites, and Judeans are synonymous for Jew(s).

There is not any Biblical authority for anyone to state or assume this.

The repeated statement and assumption that Jesus was a Jew is a theological teaching that is completely unsupported by the Holy Bible.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say or imply that Jesus was a Jew, either by race, nationality, religion or the Biblical fact that he was a Rabbi.

The teaching that Jesus was Jewish is a traditional fable.

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