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[https://archive.org/details/jewishrevolution0000jone ''The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit''] : ''And Its Impact on World History'' | Archive.org, [https://ia601709.us.archive.org/0/items/the-jewish-revolutionary-spirit-and-its-impact-on-world-history-e.-michael-jones/The%20Jewish%20Revolutionary%20Spirit%20and%20its%20Impact%20on%20World%20History%20-%20E.%20Michael%20Jones.pdf Download] pp.33-35<br> | [https://archive.org/details/jewishrevolution0000jone ''The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit''] : ''And Its Impact on World History'' | Archive.org, [https://ia601709.us.archive.org/0/items/the-jewish-revolutionary-spirit-and-its-impact-on-world-history-e.-michael-jones/The%20Jewish%20Revolutionary%20Spirit%20and%20its%20Impact%20on%20World%20History%20-%20E.%20Michael%20Jones.pdf Download] pp.33-35<br> | ||
— To hold onto their “<mark>identity</mark>,” the “Jews” had to reject Christ. The “Jews” (as opposed to the entire ethnic group, some of which accepted Christ as the Messiah) created a new <mark>identity</mark> for themselves, one that is essentially negative [in relation to Jesus Christ].<br> | — To hold onto their “<mark>identity</mark>,” the “Jews” had to reject Christ. The “Jews” (as opposed to the entire ethnic group, some of which accepted Christ as the Messiah) created a new <mark>identity</mark> for themselves, one that is essentially negative [in relation to Jesus Christ, his disciples, apostles and later followers, i.e Christians].<br> | ||
St. John brings readers to this understanding gradually as the Jews <mark>define themselves</mark> in encounters with Christ in his gospel. Jew, in the context of the Gospel of St. John, cannot mean all Jews in an ethnic or racial sense, since Jesus himself was a Jew, as were his disciples....<br> | St. John brings readers to this understanding gradually as the Jews <mark>define themselves</mark> in encounters with Christ in his gospel. Jew, in the context of the Gospel of St. John, cannot mean all Jews in an ethnic or racial sense, since Jesus himself was a Jew, as were his disciples....<br> | ||
The coming of Christ changed Jewish <mark>identity</mark> forever, something the Jews at His time comprehended only with difficulty. From then, the terms "Israelite" and "Jew" were no longer synonyms, because,...“the ‘true Israelites’” from the Christian perspective “are precisely those who, like Nathaniel, recognize in Jesus the Messiah.”...<br> | The coming of Christ changed Jewish <mark>identity</mark> forever, something the Jews at His time comprehended only with difficulty. From then, the terms "Israelite" and "Jew" were no longer synonyms, because,...“the ‘true Israelites’” from the Christian perspective “are precisely those who, like Nathaniel, recognize in Jesus the Messiah.”...<br> | ||