Tall Henry
2024-11-22 09:58:54 UTC
https://catholicphilly.com/2013/05/catholic-spirituality/was-jesus-a-jew-or-a-catholic-why-no-bells-at-mass/
A. You are right: Jesus was a Jew. He was born a Jew, brought up a Jew, was steeped in the Jewish
Scriptures and, as we read in Luke (4:16), went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day "according to his
custom."
During the temptations in the desert (Mt 4:1-11), Jesus quotes three times from the Old Testament book
of Deuteronomy. In the only passage in which he reads, Jesus unrolls a scroll in the synagogue at
Nazareth, quotes from the Book of Isaiah and refers the passage to himself (Lk 4:16-21).
In several Gospel narratives, Jesus claims divine prerogatives (in Mark 2, where he forgives the
paralytic's sins before curing him). Because of that, some Jews accused Jesus of blasphemy and rejected
him outright.
Nevertheless, in the early years following the death of Christ, Christianity was viewed as a sect within
Judaism.
A. You are right: Jesus was a Jew. He was born a Jew, brought up a Jew, was steeped in the Jewish
Scriptures and, as we read in Luke (4:16), went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day "according to his
custom."
During the temptations in the desert (Mt 4:1-11), Jesus quotes three times from the Old Testament book
of Deuteronomy. In the only passage in which he reads, Jesus unrolls a scroll in the synagogue at
Nazareth, quotes from the Book of Isaiah and refers the passage to himself (Lk 4:16-21).
In several Gospel narratives, Jesus claims divine prerogatives (in Mark 2, where he forgives the
paralytic's sins before curing him). Because of that, some Jews accused Jesus of blasphemy and rejected
him outright.
Nevertheless, in the early years following the death of Christ, Christianity was viewed as a sect within
Judaism.