And, when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising Him, His name was called Jesus??hich was so called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

Jesus answered, and said to them, "I did one work, and ye all marvel because of this.

Of the stock

and he says, "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being zealous for God, even as ye all are to-day;

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they Abraham's seed? so am I.

Of the tribe

I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

An

Now in these days, when the disciples were being multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they Abraham's seed? so am I.

Pharisee

And Paul, perceiving that the one part was of the Sadducees, and the other of the Pharisees, was crying out in the Sanhedrin, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; concerning the hope and resurrection from the dead, I am being judged."

My manner of life, therefore, from my youth, which from the first was among my own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

General references

And it came to pass, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they were calling him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

But new wine must be put into fresh skins.

But what things were gain to me, these I accounted loss for Christ.