He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,

And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel at it.

Of the stock

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamalielaccording to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.

Of the tribe

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

An

Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.

For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit."

A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.

And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, "What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" And when they learned that the ark of the LORD had come to the camp,

And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.

Pharisee

Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial."

"My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.

General references

And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father,

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.