Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Galatians 3:5
I note you are publicly denying the testimony of the Apostle to the Gentiles. To which tribe do you imagine you belong ?
But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
BRAVA LadyL! Your work on this thread is outstanding!
But there is a correction in this one point: Jews are the House of Judah, not only the tribe of Judah. The House of Judah consisted of three tribes: Judah, Benjamin, and Levi, albeit that in the Assyrian Diaspora, half of Benjamin and Levi were also captured and went away with the rest.
This is why Paul rightly calls himself a Jew when he is of the tribe of Benjamin.