re: Jesus was from Nazareth

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He was born of a virgin mother and His Father was not of this world.

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You left out murdered and came back to life.
Anyone who believes this is not only easily fooled, but also has NO business questioning ANYONE else’s beliefs.

Among the dumbest, worst posts I’ve ever seen here. fricking Larry David wasn’t born in Judea, either. He ain’t a Jew? lol you dumbass.

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70 AD moron…..Herod’s Temple destroyed. You are one sick puppy.

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Herod was Jewish in the same spirit as Donald Trump. Geopolitically Jewish but no ethnic Jewish origin. His temple expansion and building campaigns were all done to keep him in the good graces of the Jews that would never accept him as a real Jew.

He was an “Edomite.”

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The Old testament said He would be born from the house of David.

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But he was not born of the bloodline of David.

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It works Scripturally. I don’t know enough to speak on etymological reasoning.

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Even if Jesus were understood in Nazirite terms, that would not affect his ethnic identity, he would still be Jewish by descent, including Davidic lineage as traditionally claimed.

The point I’m making is that ethnically Jesus was Jewish. However, the religion practiced during the Second Temple period is not the same as what modern Jews practice today. After the destruction of the Temple, that religious tradition diverged among Jews at the time. One stream followed the Pharisaic tradition, which eventually developed into Rabbinic Judaism. This included the introduction of new interpretive frameworks such as the Mishnah, Midrash, and later rabbinic authorities, along with changes in religious requirements, resulting in a tradition that is meaningfully distinct from Temple Judaism.

Another stream followed “the Way,” which later became known as Christianity. From this perspective, Christianity represents the continuation of Temple-period Judaism, whereas Rabbinic Judaism can be understood as a divergent religious development, comparable, in structural terms, to how Islam relates to earlier biblical traditions.

For these reasons, the Christian community is not theologically bound to the Jewish community as it exists today. Christianity does not derive from Rabbinic Judaism; rather, both traditions emerged from the same Second Temple context and developed along separate trajectories after the destruction of the Temple. Any modern alignment between Christians and the State of Israel is therefore not a matter of religious obligation or doctrinal continuity, but largely a political and historical response. In particular, the rise and actions of Islam, along with the legacy of Nazi atrocities and the moral reckoning following World War II, have shaped Western Christian sympathies. When Christians take a political stance, it is often because one side appears more culturally or morally aligned with their values, not because Christianity is dependent on, or subordinate to, modern Judaism.

Jesus was very much of you where you need to draw. The distinction is not Jewish or not but Jewish or Zionist. Jesus was a Jew. He was not a Zionist.

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So, it's safe to say Matthew was written by Jews for a Jewish audience?

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Matthew was inspired by God to write his account. What we see in that Gospel is what God wanted us to see. To deny that is to deny God's sovereignty and really to just deny God entirely.

It would be quite silly to be a Christian and believe otherwise. Matthew himself probably was asked to write down his account by early believers and the very early Church which at that time was probably mostly Jews and those at least familiar with Jews.

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Galilee and Galilee was in Israel. Not Judaea. Making Jesus NOT a Jew.

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Holy shite.
Never go full-Jewtard.

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He was born of a virgin mother and His Father was not of this world.

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I have a bridge to sell you

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Mary was in the bloodline of David.

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I stand corrected if so.

From what I read, it was assumed but not concretely laid out. Are there any documents outside of the Bible that shows Mary was the daughter of Heli? Or was it assumed b/c Joseph was called his "son" assumed to mean son-in-law?