Jesus wasn't even a Christian, he was a Gnostic.

I found Jesus through my heart, not my head.

John 4:22 refers to the fact that Jesus, as prophesied and as promised, descended through the line of David, and before that, back to Juda, and all the way back to Abraham. He fulfills multiple covenants but the big two I will mention here are the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants.

He fulfills the promise to Abraham of making his descendents and his nation as numerous as the stars in the sky through extending the offer of salvation through faith to the whole world.

He fulfills the Mosaic covenant by being the final and only perfect sacrifice for the atonement of sin.

The Jews were a peculiar people, set apart by God and used to teach the world the holy and perfect goodness of God, to constantly reinforce in our minds that we can never measure up to His goodness and also that only innocent blood - for the wages of sin is death - can atone for sin.

Jesus caused a schism among the Jews. Many followed Him, including many scribes and Pharisees (Acts 15 shows one converted Pharisee who needed Apostolic instruction). Others nailed Him to a cross, ran off to Babylon and wrote a few more books of the Talmud expressing their evil opinions of Him.

Acts tells the tale of many Jews converting to Christianity. What of those who didn't?

The Gospels show us a false religious system enforced by the scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees. This system was highly, obsessively legalistic to the point of obsurdity. It was works based, with little to no faith at all. It was also extortionate and abusive. Jesus hated this.

Works have nothing to do with salvation. Salvation is through faith in God and His Son, confession of sin to God, and repentance of sin by turning away from it in our own lives. Through our faith we are called to do works but it is not our works that save us, only God saves us and them only by our faith. We do works like caring for the homeless, the hungry, the prisoners, the addicted or afflicted. God desires mercy, not sacrifice.

The scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees enjoyed taking tithes but, as the widow who gave her last two pennies shows us, they gave nothing back. They couldn't abide this stranger flipping the tables in their temples and running them out with a whip.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, Andrew, Barnabas, Timothy, etc. were all Jews. Were. They converted to Christianity. I think Nicodemus did too.

The people we call Jews today are descendants of a system and people that rejected Christ and continues to reject Him today. It is a false religious system and now an entire race.

If they just kept the Torah they would make great neighbors. It's so sad, really.