00:00The other factor to consider in understanding Jesus and his preaching is the Jewish religion.
00:20which Jesus was completely immersed in and from which he obtained his arguments and theology
00:28to develop his own teaching which very soon was called the Gospel.
00:34It is important to note that the view that proposed that the foundations of Jesus' preaching were based on...
00:42These were the Greek philosophies and ideologies.
00:45In fact, there are great and excellent introductory manuals to the New Testament.
00:52They began their works by explaining Greek philosophies, culture, and cults,
00:59which was a completely wrong starting point.
01:04Moreover, it is not enough to say that God became man in the person of Jesus.
01:09It should be added that Jesus became Jewish and also a resident of Galilee during the time of the turn of the era,
01:19under the rule of the Roman Empire and subject to the authority of Herod Antipas.
01:25This point is essential because we have to start from the Jewish faith and religion.
01:32to understand the preaching, teaching, and actions of Jesus of Nazareth.
01:39Jesus acts as someone who is in communion and continuity with the Jewish religion,
01:46someone who follows in the footsteps of the great prophets of Israel,
01:50of the Jewish sages and the teachers of God's people.
01:55It is true that the ancient positions sought to defend the greatness and uniqueness of Jesus
02:02against the monolithic Jewish cult.
02:06But Jesus thought, acted, lived, and had deep convictions typical of a faithful and extremely devout Jew.
02:17His whole life speaks of his Jewish faith, of his respect for the law of Moses,
02:22from his conviction of being in the same line as the great prophets of the Old Testament,
02:29especially like the prophets Elijah and Elisha.
02:34Jesus discovers in his life the call that God makes to him to gather Israel as the eschatological Israel,
02:43ready to receive the definitive and eternal reign of God.
02:48That is why he chooses twelve disciples, who are like the new patriarchs of the renewed and faithful chosen people.
02:57Jesus is never against his religion,
03:02neither of the cult, nor of its history, nor of its faith,
03:06nor from the Temple of Jerusalem as some claim.
03:10Which is not to say that Jesus does not criticize these venerable institutions.
03:17But these criticisms are not directed at religion or the Jewish faith as such,
03:23but to the ways in which people put them into practice and the way in which they live out their response to God.
03:30Many situations in the life of Jesus show him as a faithful and devout Jew
03:37who sought, like any Israelite, obedience to the covenant that God established with his chosen people.
03:47Among these points are the names, first of all, of her parents, Maria,
03:52such as the name of Moses and Aaron's sister.
03:57Joseph, as the favorite son of the patriarch Jacob.
04:01Likewise, the gospels tell us about the so-called brothers of Jesus.
04:07Santiago, the Greek form of Jacob, the great patriarch of Israel.
04:13Yosef, another form of Joseph.
04:16Judas, like the patriarch Judah, the patriarch from whom it is claimed King David was born.
04:22And Simon, another form of Simeon.
04:25All these names are those of the twelve patriarchs of the Jewish people.
04:30Among them stands out the name of Jesus himself, whose long, Aramaic form was Yehoshua,
04:39name that before the exile was translated as Joshua.
04:44Thus Jesus bears the name of Moses' faithful servant and successor,
04:50the name that led Israel into the promised land.
04:55The evangelist Matthew says that this name means,
04:59Yahweh saves or Yahweh is my salvation.
05:03It should be noted that this was not common among Jews who had recently returned from exile.
05:09to give their children the names of the great men and women from the history of the people's origins.
05:16Perhaps this new custom was introduced among devout Jewish worshippers.
05:21to counteract the Hellenization of their culture and religion imposed by Antiochus 4.
05:28Another aspect that speaks to the devotion of Jesus' family is the visit that year after year
05:37your ancestors used to go to Jerusalem for the Passover festival,
05:42as Luke mentions in his gospel.
05:45And according to the same evangelist, Jesus himself had the custom of visiting the synagogue on Saturdays.
05:52It is the same Luke, although with some inaccuracies regarding the purification rite of Jesus' mother,
06:01It tells us that the child was circumcised on the eighth day after his birth,
06:06as stipulated by Jewish law,
06:10and the name was imposed upon him, a tradition that came after the exile or the Maccabean period.
06:16Although there was no obligation to circumcise the child,
06:21nor the ransom of the firstborn,
06:23nor the purification of the mother of the newborn in the temple,
06:28Luke tells us that these actions were carried out by Joseph, Mary, and Jesus in the temple.
06:36It is worth remembering that for Israel at this time,
06:39There was only one temple where Yahweh and his glory dwell and reside.
06:46The Temple of Jerusalem
06:48Jewish scripture was never a manual of religion, worship, or piety.
06:54nor a catechism of good deeds to perform,
06:59but the written record of the shared history between God and the Jewish people, his ally.
07:06The Jewish people, like the Catholic Church,
07:11They profess a historical faith in which they confess that God has intervened in the course of human existence,
07:19and has established an intimate and captivating dialogue between himself and the man,
07:26whom he addresses as a friend.
07:28Israel's essential profession of faith is that God delivered them from slavery in Egypt,
07:37He led them through the desert, establishing a covenant or alliance with them through Moses.
07:45and gave them a series of commandments so that they might live in faithfulness to this covenant.
07:51As the culmination of this alliance, he gave them the land he had sworn to give to Abram, his great friend.
07:59Therefore, keeping the commandments is the way in which the Jewish people
08:05He manifests his submission to God and his faithfulness to him.
08:10But Israel experienced the same thing that happens to anyone in a love or friendship relationship.
08:17He lost sight of the person and was content to create an external environment
08:23that by submitting to him punctually, he would guarantee fidelity, in this case, to God.
08:31What Jesus comes to change is that he puts the person of God at the center, not the law.
08:37In fact, in Jesus' time, the Pharisees and apparently all the Jews
08:44They had a series of 613 commandments that were essential to fulfill in order to do,
08:52From their point of view, pleasing to the Lord.
