– Name that designated in the OT the descendants of the tribe of Judah and later the subjects of the kingdom of the same name (930-568 BC):
Es 4,12 : Let the king know that the Jews, who left your land to come […] to Jerusalem, are rebuilding this city.
Ne 1,2 : I asked them about the freed Jews who had escaped from captivity and about Jerusalem.
Est 3 :6 : He sought a way to exterminate the nation of Mordecai, all the Jews in the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
Dn 3,8 : At that same moment, some Chaldeans approached to slander the Jews.
– In the NT it received greater coverage, designating the enemies of Christ in general:
Mt 9,10-13.14 : The Pharisees said to the disciples: “Why does your master eat with publicans and sinners?”.
Mt 12,1-8.22-30 : Jesus was crossing the wheat fields on a Saturday day.
Mk 2,15-22.23-28 : He sat at table in his house and many tax collectors and sinners sat with him.
Mk 3,20-27 : The scribes […] said: “He is possessed by Beelzebul”.
Lk 5,29-39 : The Pharisees […] began […] to ask […]: “Why do you eat and drink with […] people of bad life?”.
Lk 6,1-5 : Some of the Pharisees said to them: “Why do you do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”.
Lk 11,14-23 : But some of them said: “He drives out demons through Beelzebul, prince of demons”.
Jn 5:16 : For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he performed these miracles on the Sabbath day.
Jn 18:36 : My subjects would certainly have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews.
Acts 23:12-13 : When it was day, some Jews gathered together and swore with curses not to eat or drink anything.
– The Jews were first offered to enter the Kingdom of God:
Romans 9–11 : They are the Israelites; to them were given adoption, glory, covenants, law, worship, promises.
