Christianity Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“Discovering the Jewishness of Jesus and of the Early Jesus movement is a crucial step in the continual process of accurate interpretation of the…

— Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg

The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If…

— Adam Clarke

“we must not forget that people came to Christ from every kind of background and that the early Christian community included more than a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Look at it this way: Jesus is Jewish. The disciples were all Jews. The apostles were all Jews. All the people saved at Pentecost…

— Zola Levitt

“The Babylonian Jews in the Sasanian Empire, living in a non-Christian and even progressively anti-Christian environment, could easily take up, and continue, the discourse…

— Peter Schäfer

“In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history…

— Eli Of Kittim

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before…

— Joseph McCabe

“Modern Christians who find Matthew's preoccupation with [Judaism] tedious and even distasteful, should realise that they live in a very different world from that…

— R.T. France

“The New Testament church was all about being and making disciples of Jesus.”

— Jim Putman

“He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling…

— Emily Brontë

“So controversial was the preaching of the gospel that the religious establishment of the Jewish community forbade the Apostles from preaching the gospel at…

— Reformation Trust Publishing

“Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by erasing, as…

— Reza Aslan