And every manchild when it is eight days old, shall be circumcised among you in your generations, and all servants also born at home or bought with money, though they be strangers and not of thy seed.

And when the eighth day was come that the child should be circumcised, his name was called Jesus, which was named of the angel before he was conceived in the mother's womb.

Jesus answered, and said unto them, "I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

Of the stock

And he said, "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia: nevertheless yet brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and informed diligently in the law of the fathers, and was fervent minded to Godward, as ye all are this same day,

They are Hebrews, so am I. They are Israelites, even so am I. They are the seed of Abraham, even so am I.

Of the tribe

I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For even I verily am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, and of the tribe of Benjamin;

An

Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.

for I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing at all wherefore they should have put me into this dungeon."

And there was with us a young man, an Hebrew-born servant unto the chief marshal. And we told him, and he declared our dreams to us according to either of our dreams.

When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout they said, "What meaneth the sound of this mighty shout in the host of the Hebrews?" And they understood how that the ark of the LORD was come into the host.

And he answered them, "I am a Hebrew: and the LORD God of heaven which made both sea and dry land, I fear."

In those days, as the number of the disciples grew, there arose a grudge among the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were despised in the daily ministration.

They are Hebrews, so am I. They are Israelites, even so am I. They are the seed of Abraham, even so am I.

Pharisee

When Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. Of hope, and of resurrection from death I am judged."

"My living of a child, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews:

General references

And in the eighth day the flesh of the child's foreskin shall be cut away.

And it fortuned, the eighth day they came to circumcise the child: and called his name Zacharias after the name of his father,

But new wine must be poured into new vessels, and both are preserved.

But the things that were vantage unto me I counted loss for Christ's sake.