So widespread is their celebration — purely social — of the Christian feast, that few rabbis ... mind was the gift to him of his Jewish heritage. . . . Jesus was a Jew — in blood, in loyalty ...

The traditional story has Jesus going to Jerusalem at the time of the festival of Passover. Passover is one of the two most important Jewish Holy Days or festivals in the entire year. On the one ...

In the synoptics, Jesus only makes one visit to Jerusalem, but in John he makes at least four visits to Jerusalem for Jewish feasts. John thus places the life of Jesus in the context of ancient ...

beyond which Jewish residency – permanent or temporary – was mostly forbidden. Birthday of Jesus (Yehoshua ben Yosef), a Galilean Jew whose life and teachings inspired the Christian religion ...

While it has Jewish roots, Pentecost is a Christian feast day celebrating the arrival of the Holy Spirit on believers in ...