(July 26, 2014 at 12:33 pm)Purplundy Wrote: That doesn't change the fact that the Gospel writers made themselves Jewish characters in their own story.
That and the fact that Christianity sprung from Judaism socially, theologically, and ideologically.
Jesus was a Jew.
"Only on his mother's side." - Archie Bunker c 1970
It's fiction. They can make it whatever the fuck they want. That's what author's do.
The point is, for alleged "jews" they don't seem to have a fucking clue what the money changers were doing in the temple.