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When the Pope viewed Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of Jesus Christ, he is said to have remarked, It…
There are some things about Jesus that are bound to be troubling to a Christian reading the New Testament—that is, if you are reading the New Testament carefully and thinking about what you read. It’s a testimony to the hateful antisemitism that still exists that some people get real uncomfortable when I remind them that Jesus was, after all, a Jew. Jesus observed the Sabbath every week of his life—even though he rejected the Pharisees interpretation of Sabbath observance. Jesus also observed all the religious festivals of the Jews. Every year of his life, he made the pilgrimage to