And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.

And when eight days had passed, before His circumcision, His name was then called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

Jesus answered them, “I did one deed, and you all marvel.

Of the stock

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel,

strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they

descendants of Abraham? So am I.

Of the tribe

I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

An

Then a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was living by the

oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were

allies with Abram.

For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.”

Now a Hebrew youth was with us there, a servant of the captain of the bodyguard, and we related them to him, and he interpreted our dreams for us. To each one he interpreted according to his own dream.

When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” Then they understood that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp.

He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord

God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.”

Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the

Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they

descendants of Abraham? So am I.

Pharisee

But perceiving that one group were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, Paul began crying out in the Council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!”

“So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

General references

On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.