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What a reach... Jesus and his disciples aren't even present in that verse, in context. The only two participant groups in the scene being described are the Pharisees/Jews looking for Jesus, and the people whispering amongst themselves about Jesus, who fear said Jews. Jesus himself is not being identified with a group on either side of the verse you quoted.

> 2 Samuel 2:4: "Then the men of Judah came to Hebron, and there they anointed David king over the tribe of Judah."

> Matthew 1:1-2: "This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob..."

> Hebrews 7:14
"For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah..."

"Muh Israelites." Yeah, there *were* twelve tribes of Israel, which were apparently distinct groups, but the tribe of Judah is the one specifically from which we get ethnic Jews, literally in the name. Jesus is explicitly stated to trace his genealogy through this line.

> Luke 2:21: "On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus..."

> Luke 2:41-42: "Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom."

He was circumcised and celebrated Passover.

> John 4:22: "You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews."

Jesus himself identifying with the Jewish ethnic group.

> 1. John 1:38
"Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, 'What do you want?' They said, 'Rabbi' (which means Teacher), 'where are you staying?'"

> 2. John 1:49
"Then Nathanael declared, 'Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.'"

> 3. John 3:2
"He came to Jesus at night and said, 'Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.'"

> 4. Mark 11:21
"Peter remembered and said to Jesus, 'Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!'"

> 5. John 9:2
"His disciples asked Him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'"

Rabbi.

> John 4:9
"The Samaritan woman said to Him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?’"

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It's all right there, bro. I'm not the schizo for believing what the text plainly says to your face.

Nothing in common, you say?

So you're saying the group of people in biblical times referred to as Jews who practiced circumcision, followed the levitical law, and subverted their way up through society don't have so much as a chromosome in common with the group of people referred to as Jews who practice circumcision, follow the levitical law, and subvert their way up through society today?

In a stroke of cunning, are the so called "Jews" of current year only *playing* at having an obsession with genital mutilation, in an attempt to better connect themselves to the story of 1 Samuel 18, wherein King Saul has David bring him the foreskins of 200 slaughtered Philistines in exchange for his daughter?