Oh your poor poor girl; Jesus is not and has never been a common Jewish name. The name Jesus is not Jewish at all. The name Jesus is GREEK. The man the Bible names Jesus was Yeshua which was a common name translated to English as Joshua.
The Pharisees and Sadducee's tried Yeshua for braking Mitzvah and claiming to be GOD, for healing on Sabbath, for miracles and for castigating them on their faith and perverting of the Temple. HE showed them how they put their own power and greed above Faith in his Father. It had NOTHING to do with rebellion against Rome.
I wonder if you are one of those people that believes when Yeshua sad to turn the other cheek he was speaking about being meek and humble and ultimately pacifism?
In no way was Jesus a meek or mild man, nor was he a humble man or into pacifism. From what I have been taught, Jesus when angered could be fearsome. HE was not above beating up those that he felt defiled the Temple of his Father.
As those that study him as the Son of God and Divine, I try to study Him as from the Human side, what his live as a human Male on Mothers side---the line Jews follow in deciding how the line goes.
So I try to understand the times and thoughts of the history of his time. His mother and her sister, John the Baptists mother have history that is told different in different age old texts, in some John is his first cousin in others his uncle. Some believe Jesus was an only child others that he had brothers and sisters.
The lost 20 years of his life, where was he, was he studying or traveling ? What was the catalyst that sent him after all that time to begin gathering up Disciples both Jew and Pagan.
Fascinating time and a turning point in history for the people up to today. A simple Carpenter that most likely worked with his Earth father building boats. True in some passages he confused his own family about what HE was all about.
Politics has allways been the problem of the people of any faith. Reading Romans poor Paul had his run ins with Rome.
