Christianity is NOT Derived From Judaism

[Jack]

Did not! Others called Him a Jew.

Make that "King of the Jews". Already quoted one NT verse that you ignored.

Matthew 2:2
2 saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him."

You won't find anywhere written where Jesus said He was king of the Jews.

Mark 15:2
2 Then Pilate asked Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" He answered and said to him, "It is as you say."

Lord Jesus Christ is KING of ISRAEL, and head of The Church.

Yes indeed!

The Jews don't even represent all of the 12 tribes of Israel, but those of the southern "kingdom of Judah" only that remained in the holy land when God scattered the northern ten tribes out of the land first, among the Gentiles, and their having lost their heritage as part of Israel.

Then why will Jesus return to fight for Israel in the Land of the Bible. Israel has over 7 MILLION Jews!

 

[Jack]

You can't even rightly divide the Scriptures according to their timelines. That Ezekiel 11 gathering is STILL FUTURE and only will happen when Jesus returns. And it will involve the BELIEVING REMNANT of the Jews being gathered by Him, which are part of His Church.

Let's try again.

Ezekiel 11:17-20
17 Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel." '

And He did!

18 And they will go there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.
19 Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, 20 that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

 

[Soyeong]

I agree they need God’s grace to be saved but what I’m saying is that unbelievers are not under the covenant of grace which means that if they stay that way they will be judged by the law.

In Psalm 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Torah, which means that the Mosaic Covenant is a covenant of grace and law. Likewise, Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he and Israel might know Him, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so the goal of the Torah is to graciously teaching us how to know God and Jesus by walking in His way, which is His gift of eternal life, and which again means that the Mosaic Covenant was a covenant of grace and law. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts, so it is also a covenant of grace and law along with all of God's other covenants.

 

[IndianaRob]

I don't interpret what Paul said that way. I interpret the fulness of the Gentiles to mean when during this present world The Gospel being accepted by the Gentiles is complete, and means it will be the day of Christ's future return.

At the end of Zechariah 12 it says the families of Israel will mourn for Him, meaning when He returns. In Luke 23 Jesus quoted the "Blessed are the barren..." metaphor from Isaiah 54 to those daughters of Jerusalem who wept for Him when He was bearing His cross to be crucified. He showed the deceived Jews will be repeating that "Blessed are the barren..." about those of His saints that were faithful and waited on Him to come. And then they shall wish for the mountains and the hills to fall on them, which is put for their feeling shame at having rejected Him.

Thus Jesus was pointing to 'spiritually blinded' Jews who do love The LORD and have every intention of worshiping Him only. It's just that they were deceived because of the blindness God put upon them so The Gospel would go to the Gentiles (and to the Ten Tribes of the "house of Israel" scattered among the Gentiles.) That is why these will feel shame when Jesus does appear to them. As for the 'false Jews' that the devil sowed among Judah (the good wheat in Christ's parable of the tares of the field), they won't feel shame, for they have been against Jesus Christ from the very start working for the devil while hiding among true Judah (see John 8). But these Jesus speaks to below are those deceived Jews that are... actually of the 'seed' of Israel, but God blinded them spiritually.

Luke 23:27-31
27 And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him.

28 But Jesus turning unto them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.'
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us'; and to the hills, 'Cover us.'"

31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?"
KJV

I understand, Davy. I come from a dispensationalist background, but I left that many years ago, so this one we simply disagree.

 

[WitnessX]

The Mishnah and Talmud are just the Rabbi's interpretations on how Torah, the Writings, and the Prophets should be applied to real life. Baptists, Pentecostals, Methodists, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox all have their own interpretations of the Old and New Testament writings. As does every Tom, Dick, and Harriet on this forum.

All nonsense, just like the Methodist, catholic, Eastern Orthodox interpretations and additions. You go ahead and keep up the false propaganda. It won’t end well for you.

 

[David in NJ]

In Psalm 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Torah, which means that the Mosaic Covenant is a covenant of grace and law. Likewise, Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he and Israel might know Him, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so the goal of the Torah is to graciously teaching us how to know God and Jesus by walking in His way, which is His gift of eternal life, and which again means that the Mosaic Covenant was a covenant of grace and law. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts, so it is also a covenant of grace and law along with all of God's other covenants.

You are missaligning what the LORD said to Moses.

You cannot add the OT to the NT = JESUS said "Don't do it"

What lawslessness was JESUS referring too??? = That which Speaks of HIM and HIS Commandments

Always remember that the 10 Commandments are the "lawlessness" that JESUS Speaks of and those which HE gave to us in the NT

 

[David in NJ]

Some Christians have issues with change but the scriptures are all about change.
Thing changed when Adam and Eve were booted out of paradise.
Things changed between Adam and Eve and Abraham. Abraham effectively started the Yahwist religion.
Things changed between Abraham and Moses and the Mosaic Law.
Things changed when the Temple was built.
Things changed when the Temples were destroyed.
Things changed when the Israelite kingdoms were conquered.
Things changed with the advent of Jewish-Christians
And there was a big change when Paul welcomed Pagans into Christianity. Before that there were Mosaic Laws against any agreement or accord with Pagans. For the Pagans, the Law was kill all that breathed.
The Jews were expecting Elijah to come down in a fiery chariot and introduce the Messiah. (That is why all the questions about Elijah in the New Testament.) They were expecting for the Messiah to be a human warlord king that would take out their oppressors in the Terrible Day of the Lord. This human warlord king would establish his kingdom that would last forever and the Mosaic Law and animal sacrifices would go on forever. None of that happened....so that was a change.
Yeshua said, blessed are the peace makers. And He did not tell the Jews or Christian to rebel against Rome.
The phrase God so love the world does not appear in Old Testament scriptures.
The phrase kill all that breaths would not come out of Yeshua's mouth.
The religion went from God fearing to God loving.
The Mosaic Law does not apply to Christians, that is a change.

Does the Mosaic law apply to Jews?

 

[Soyeong]

That wrongly assumes... that Judaism represents the true worship of God per the old covenant, and even is wrongly regarded as such by Jews today who reject Jesus of Nazareth as The Christ-Messiah. What didn't you understand with what Jesus said in those Scriptures I posted in my original post?

Judaism is the religion that is based on the following the Torah, which God gave to Israel through Moses. In Deuteronomy 5:31-33 Moses wrote down everything that God spoke to him without departing him it, and Jesu said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the moth of God (Deuteronomy 8:3). Christians can criticize Christian leaders or traditions without being opposed to Christianity itself and the same is true for Judaism. The Talmud contains harsh words that Pharisees said towards other Pharisees, so Jesus was not the only one to do that, and that does not mean that they were against Pharisaism or Judaism.

Jews can reject a false representation of Christ without rejecting the actual Christ. For example, Jews have been persecuted in the name of Christ over the past two thousands years, so there is nothing wrong with rejecting that Christ. In Deuteronomy 13, the way that God instructed to determine that someone is a false prophet is if they speak against obeying the Torah, so if Jesus has done that as many Christians teach that he did, then Jews who have rejected him for that reason would be correctly doing what God has instructed them to do out of love for Him, so again there is nothing wrong with rejecting that Christ. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), which he embodied through his works by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah and many Jews fully support embodying God's character traits in obedience to the Torah, so they have not rejected the actual Christ.

 

[Soyeong]

The religion of Judaism is about the 'traditions' the Jews that went captive to Babylon created. That's where their Babylonian Talmud they still follow to this day came from. It is corruption, and Jesus rebuked their traditions of men. So to claim Christianity is based on Judaism is like saying the Jews did not reject Jesus and did not have Him crucified.

It would be impossible for someone to follow the Torah without following traditions for how to follow it. There are many issues that would naturally arise for a nation that has decided to put the Torah into practice, which is why Moses got swamped with questions and had to appoint a system of judges. For example, Numbers 15:38 instruct to wear fingers on the corners of our garments with a thread of blue in each, however, it doesn't say anything about what shade of blue to use, what other colors to use, what to use to make the pigment, how long they should be, how they should be attached to our garments, how many knots should be tied, what to do if our garments don't have corners, etc., so these things got left to tradition, and following this tradition does not involve following a different religion that the one that God instituted based on the Torah.

In Deuteronomy 17:8-13, it gives authority to priests and judges to make rulings about how to correctly obey the Torah, which the community was obligated to obey, and which got passed down as case law and oral that that eventually became codified in the Talmud. This means that God partnered with Israel in allowing some day about the meaning of the Torah, so if they went through the right procedures and methods of interpretation and ended up interpreting the Torah in a way that was not what God intended, then the community was still obligated by God to obey the ruling and they did not have the freedom to decide to do their own thing instead if they thought that the ruling was wrong. Whatever they bound or loosed on earth would be bound or loosed in heaven (Matthew 18:18). In Matthew 23:1-4, Jesus recognized that the scribes and Pharisees had this authority by saying that they sit in the Seat of Moses and by instructing his followers to do and observe all that they said.

The Talmud is more concerned with teach how to think than what to think and it contributors were very logical and dedicated to basing their positions on what was stated in the Tanakh. The Talmud derived many things from the OT that are also taught in the NT, so it was part of the same world. There are also many things in the Talmud that Christians would have no problem agreeing with even if they don't consider it to be authoritative. It often uses hypothetical extremes in order to argue for lesser cases. For example, if a woman gives birth, then becomes pregnant again, but miscarries on the evening of the 81st day, then would she be required to bring one offering or two? The Talmud goes back and forth on this issue and its like this person is making a really good point that I didn't think about and I thought was solid but this other person is making a really good counterargument and another person is saying that you might that this is the case because of that, but you would be wrong because of this, and so forth. A Christian would have no problem agreeing with the arguments being made and there is nothing about this that involves following a different religion than the one that God instituted.

 

[Soyeong]

You are missaligning what the LORD said to Moses.

You cannot add the OT to the NT = JESUS said "Don't do it"

What lawslessness was JESUS referring too??? = That which Speaks of HIM and HIS Commandments

Always remember that the 10 Commandments are the "lawlessness" that JESUS Speaks of and those which HE gave to us in the NT

Please cite where Jesus said that. Jesus and the Jews that he spent his ministry interacting with were all under the Mosaic Covenant, so everything that he spent his ministry teaching up until he established the New Covenant at the end of his ministry was in regard to how to live under the Mosaic Covenant in obedience to the Law of Moses. In that context, the only thing that "lawlessness" can refer to is in contrast to obeying the Law of Moses, which is what the NT consistently uses it in regard to. Jesus said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Deuteronomy 8:3), so he affirmed everything that God spoke to Moses (Deuteronomy 5:31-33). Moreover, Jesus did not establish the New Covenant for the purpose of nullifying anything that he sent his ministry teaching or so that we could continue to have the same lawlessness that caused the New Covenant to be needed in the first place, but other the New Covenant still involves following the Torah (Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27). In Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the Torah, so Jesus did not do that in disagreement with what the Father has spoken.

 

[Grailhunter]

Your Biblical ignorance is showing.

Gal 3:6-14
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
KJV

Gal 3:16-18
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
KJV

Gal 3:22
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
KJV

Gal 3:29
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
KJV

And your true Christian nature and character are showing....you have not learned anything....
Again, find the word Promise in the Old Testament scriptures.

 

[Grailhunter]

Does the Mosaic law apply to Jews?

Yeshua did not say the Mosaic Law ended.
He was talking, not until all things fulfilled. Was that Him passing on the cross, or His return, or Judgment Day.
The Jews still follow what they can of the Mosaic Law.

 

[Soyeong]

Judaism isn’t mentioned once in the Old Testament. Judaism uses the oral Torah, Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud. Judaism is Kabbalah.

To convert to Judaism one must deny the divinity of Christ Jesus.

Jesus said :

Matthew 23:15 (KJV) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

A proselyte is a convert to Judaism in the context of Matt 23:15. That alone should tell you Judaism isn’t and has nothing to do with I AM or Jesus.

Given the incredible detail I AM gave Moses, and the prophets considering all manner of things to include the details of the Ark, Tabernacle, Temple, Law et al it’s not an oversight that Judaism isn’t mentioned once.

Only people who don’t know any better think Judaism is the Old Testament.

Judaism is the religion based on following the Torah. The oral Torah is in regard to how to follow the Torah, so following it does not involve following a separate religion. Many Jews have never read the Talmud or don't consider it to be authoritative. There are some who practice Judaism as followers of Jesus. In Deuteronomy 13, the way that God instructed to determine that someone is a false prophet is if they speak against obeying the Torah, so if Jesus had done that as many Christians teach that he did, then it would be correct for proselytes to renounce the divinity of Jesus. Most Jews believe in the Messiah even if they don't recognize that Jesus is the Messiah. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), which he embodied through his works by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah and most Jews fully support being a doer of God's character traits in obedience to the Torah.

That’s the thing, Gods Word doesn’t change. So if a religion is evolving….its not Gods Word.

Isaiah 40:8 (KJV) The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

That’s why Jesus came to fulfill not destroy:

Matthew 5:17 (KJV) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

1 John 2:22-23 (KJV) 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also].

Judaism is heresy and Antichrist…in as much as Islam or Buddhism and all the rest. They are all antirchrist..

Jesus came as the Jewish Messiah of Judaism in fulfillment of Jewish prophecy and he spent his ministry teaching his followers how to practice Judaism by walking in sinless obedience to the Torah. In Acts 21:20, they were rejoicing that tens of thousands of Jews were coming to faith in Jesus who were all zealous for the Torah, which is in accordance with Titus 2:14, where Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so Jews coming to faith in Jesus were not ceasing to practice Judaism but were becoming zealous for it. This means that there is a period of time between the resurrection of Jesus and the inclusion of Gentiles in Acts 10 that is estimated to be around 7-15 years during which all Christians were Torah observant Jews and that Christianity at its origin was the sect of Judaism that recognized Jesus as the Messiah. In Acts 24:14, Paul testified that according to The Way, which they call a sect, he continued to worship the God of their fathers, believing everything laid down by the Torah and written in the Prophets, and the religion of which The Way is a sect is Judaism. Christ is the man of lawfulness, which is in contrast with the Antichrist, who is the man of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:3) and Jews are followers of lawfulness.

 

[Soyeong]

And to claim Jesus followed Judaism mocks His rebuke against the traditions of the Jews in the Scriptures I quoted from Jesus in my OP.

Again, Judaism is the religion that is based on following the Torah and that is the religion that Jesus set a sinless example for us to practice. The harshest criticisms of the members of a group tend to come from other members of that group because they care the most about its reputation, so there is nothing about Jesus criticizing some Pharisees that means that he did not practice Judaism.

OK, but in today's Jerusalem the Ultra-Orthodox Jews still burn New Testament Bibles.

And western history in Europe even shows how many of them refused to convert to Jesus and were forced to flee from country to country until they were able to return to the holy land. Even today, they exist in as unbelievers in just about all major cities. So there's no doubt a lot more unbelieving Jews in the world than you may think.

Burning Bibles is by no means the norm and it was condemned by mainstream Jewish authorities. Most Jews have not even read the Bible and it is hard to blame someone for not being a fan of it considering the history of Christians trying to force Jews to convert. Most Jews believe in the Messiah even if they don't recognize Jews as the Messiah and that is much more important.

 

[Angelina]

Hi @Davy, regarding your starting post in this thread.
I agree with the main point you are making, namely that Christianity is not derived from rabbinic Judaism or from the traditions of the Pharisees, but from God's revelation fulfilled in Jesus Christ. I do think, however, that a few historical distinctions are worth making so that the argument is as strong as possible, both biblically and historically.

The New Testament itself distinguishes between the commandments of God and the traditions that had grown up around them. Jesus repeatedly confronted the religious leaders, not for believing Moses, but for nullifying God's word through their traditions.

Matthew 15:3 "But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?"
And again,

Matthew 15:9 "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Likewise, Paul speaks of his former life as being in "the Jews' religion."

Galatians 1:13-14 "For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God... And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers." Notice that Paul does not describe Christianity as the continuation of "the Jews' religion." Rather, after meeting Christ, he regarded his former confidence in that religious system as loss for Christ.

Philippians 3:7-8 "But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ."

The foundation of Christianity is therefore not rabbinic tradition but Jesus Christ Himself.

Ephesians 2:20 "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone."
The order is significant. The apostles and prophets form the foundation because they testify to Christ, who is the chief cornerstone. Christianity rests upon God's revelation through the Law and the Prophets as fulfilled in Christ, not upon later traditions that obscured that revelation.

I would, however, make one historical clarification. It may be more accurate to say that what we now call rabbinic Judaism developed over time, especially during and after the Babylonian exile, rather than saying Judaism itself began there. The exile profoundly influenced Jewish religious life, with the increased use of Aramaic, the rise of the scribes, and eventually the development of the oral traditions that later became codified in the Mishnah and, centuries later, the Babylonian Talmud.

For that reason, I would be cautious about saying that Jesus was rebuking the Babylonian Talmud itself, since it had not yet been compiled during his earthly ministry. Rather, he was rebuking the oral traditions that were already being taught by the scribes and Pharisees, many of which were later incorporated into rabbinic writings.

This distinction actually strengthens your argument rather than weakens it.

It is also important not to confuse biblical Israel with later rabbinic Judaism. Christianity did not arise from the traditions of the Pharisees, but neither is it disconnected from God's covenant dealings with Israel. Jesus Himself said,

John 4:22 "...salvation is of the Jews." And Paul reminds us,

Romans 9:4-5 "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came..."

Christianity is therefore not a rejection of the Old Testament revelation but its fulfillment. The Law, the Prophets, and the Writings all point to Christ.

Jesus declared, John 5:39 "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
And after His resurrection He explained, Luke 24:27 "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."

For that reason, I believe we can state that...

Christianity is not derived from rabbinic Judaism, nor from the traditions of the elders that Christ repeatedly rebuked. Christianity is the fulfillment of God's redemptive plan revealed through Moses, the Prophets, and ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah.

The New Covenant is not an extension of human tradition but the fulfillment of God's own promises given throughout the Old Testament.

In my opinion, framing it this way preserves the distinction that Scripture itself makes between the commandments of God and the traditions of men, while also recognizing that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the very God who sent his Son into the world according to the promises made to Israel.

 

[Lambano]

All nonsense, just like the Methodist, catholic, Eastern Orthodox interpretations and additions. You go ahead and keep up the false propaganda. It won’t end well for you.

And your point is still irrelevant because it's an historical anachronism. Christianity developed out of what historians call "Second-Temple Era Judaism", when the Levitical sacrificial system was still in operation. The Rabbinical writings such as the Mishnah and the Talmud came into being after the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD and the Bar Kochba revolt in 130 AD. This developed into modern "Rabbinic Judaism". Kabballah developed even later, around the 12th and 13th centuries.

 

[Lambano]

So is that relevant? Yes indeed, it is very relevant to both Bible history and secular history.

No, that is irrelevant because Christianity didn't develop out of the Samaritan religious practices; it developed out of Second-Temple Judaism. I've mentioned several core aspects of Christianity that were adapted from Second Temple Judaism, including Monotheism, worship of the Jewish God יהוה, the Hebrew scriptures, our understanding of Sin, Atonement, the concepts of Messiah and prophets, Baptism, the Eucharist....

 

[Lambano]

Let's talk about Jesus's critique of Second Temple Judaism.

The stereotype of Second Temple Judaism being rife with "the traditions of men" is a gross exaggeration. The three specific non-biblical traditions Jesus is on the record criticizing were the handwashing before meals cited earlier, the Corban tradition cited in Mark 7:11, and not associating with persons thought to be "unclean" such as tax collectors, prostitutes, and Samaritans. Jesus criticized overly strict interpretations of the Sabbath laws (which are clearly biblical), but He did support them in that "the Sabbath was made for Man" comment (Mark 2:27). More controversially, Mark interprets Jesus's commentary on handwashing to mean complete abolition of the biblical Kosher laws (Mark 7:19); whether Mark is justified in inserting his personal opinion depends on one's understanding of inspiration. I don't see anything that says Jesus supported the Levitical sacrificial system ("I desire mercy, not sacrifice"), and He certainly objected to having commercial activity like purchasing sacrificial animals and exchanging currency on the Temple grounds. I love that Jesus offered mercy to the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-11), rather than strict enforcement of the biblical sentence of death by stoning. Jesus also celebrated some of the traditional Jewish holidays such as Passover (very biblical) and Hannukah (John 10:22, not biblical unless you accept 1 and 2 Maccabees as scripture). I don't see a wholesale rejection of Judaism as practiced at the time.

As one might expect, Christianity pretty much diverged from Second Temple Judaism in all these areas, except capital punishment, shunning those considered "unclean", and mixed results on the Sabbath question. Handwashing before meals doesn't count; there are good secular hygienic reasons for continuing that practice.

Jesus also criticized being pious for show, a criticism that could be applied to some of His modern-era followers.

 

[David in NJ]

Yeshua did not say the Mosaic Law ended.
He was talking, not until all things fulfilled. Was that Him passing on the cross, or His return, or Judgment Day.
The Jews still follow what they can of the Mosaic Law.

Two IMPORTANT Statements JESUS made to the Jews, and a THIRD

#1 - Therefore I said to you⁺ that you⁺ will die in your⁺ sins; for unless you⁺ believe that I am He, you⁺ will die in your⁺ sins.”

#2 - Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust.

#3 - “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate;

 

[Grailhunter]

Two IMPORTANT Statements JESUS made to the Jews, and a THIRD

#1 - Therefore I said to you⁺ that you⁺ will die in your⁺ sins; for unless you⁺ believe that I am He, you⁺ will die in your⁺ sins.”

#2 - Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust.

#3 - “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate;

Conclusion?