Jesus was Jewish through and through. He himself said, when questioned, that he had not come to change one "jot or tittle" of the laws of Judaism or, as we might say today, one iota, but rather to fulfil them.
He cannot be thought of as a Christian surely because a Christian is considered to be a follower of Jesus so it would not make sense to think of him as someone who was following himself whilst here on earth.
The Judaism of the people of his own race was central and pivotal to him in his life and always will be to the Christian Faith he founded. The Jewish scriptures are the foundation on which the Christian New Testament rests.
May those of us who are Christians always treasure the richness of that foundation and value and respect it and those people today who still follow it. They are our forebears in the Faith we love.
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