Building Bridges: Understanding Jews and Judaism

Jesus was a Jew.Those who first followed him were Jews.He selected only Jews as his disciples.his chosen earthly environment was within first-planted in Jewish soil Jerusalem was the center of Christianity in the early rabbi Gamaliel,and Paul appears to have remained an observant Jew his whole life.A vibrant Jewish Christianity,considered by the Romans a sect of Judaism,developed in Judea during the apostolic period.