Do Jews believe Jesus existed?

Jesus is irrelevant to Judaism, therefore you won't get a unified Jewish answer.

This Jew doesn't believe he ever existed. I think he is a compilation of all the prophets from the Hebrew Bible -- he fed the multitudes, he revived a dead child, etc. Without the Hebrew Bible, there would be no Christian Bible.

believe Jesus was a profit that taught Gods word and not the true son of God. They are still waiting on the true son of God.

Yes of course Jews know about Jesus and a few of them think he might have existed. Few of us think he ever existed.

NO Jew thinks Jesus was a Rabbi.

A few Jews think Jesus existed and are all still awaiting the promised Messiah. NO Jew believes in human sacrifice and therefore would find it heresy to pray to a dead Jew. Very few "Messianic Jews" have ever been Jews. They are deceitful Christians who pretend to be Jews in order to attract Jews to Christianity.

Yes, we have a l-o-n-g list of false Messiahs we "fell for," but when they died without having completed the messiah's mission of universal peace on earth, we move on to another righteous prospect.

There is nothing at all "historical" about Jesus. He is nowhere to be found outside of the Christian Bible.

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Do Jews believe Jesus existed?

I know that the Jewish don't accept Jesus as the messiah because of many reasons.

However, according to their belief, did Jesus ever even exist?

Or do they believe he was just a made up figure?

I thought that Jews did believe he existed but that he was just a normal man.

Or do they...

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The thing is that he has no relevance to our religion, so we don't think about him in any way until Christians start asking us about him, or whatever. So there's nothing to get us to believe he existed, didn't exist or don't know. Some Jews may think one thing or another, but there's no Jewish 'line' on it, any more than there is a Christian 'line' on the Buddha. It's just not something we'd ever talk about as Jews.

EDIT: I'm really unclear why this belief persists that Jews think Jesus was a great prophet or a rabbi or something. We don't. We just have no opinion, as Jews. He's irrelevant. Please, please, will all those people giving the false information that Jews consider him a prophet or a rabbi please stop saying this. It's not true.

answer: Jesus may have existed. It doesn't matter - he failed to meet even one of the requirements to be the Jewish Messiah. He is irrelevant in Judaism.

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Jews believe many people named Jesus existed, but not the savior.

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The Jewish Encylopedia was written in the 19th century and isn't considered a reliable or authentic view of Judaism, but to my knowledge it was written by European Jews. I don't know of any other on the net so here's what it says: "The Jewish legends in regard to Jesus are found in three sources, each independent of the others—(1) in New Testament apocrypha and Christian polemical works, (2) in the Talmud and the Midrash, and (3) in the life of Jesus ("Toledot Yeshu'") that originated in the Middle Ages. It is the tendency of all these sources to be-little the person of Jesus by ascribing to him illegitimate birth, magic, and a shameful death. In view of their general character they are called indiscriminately legends. Some of the statements, as that referring to magic, are found among pagan writers and Christian heretics; and as the Ebionites, or Judæo-Christians, who for a long time lived together with the Jews, are also classed as heretics, conclusions may be drawn from this as to the origin of these legends. It ought also to be added that many of the legends have a theological background. For polemical purposes, it was necessary for the Jews to insist on the illegitimacy of Jesus as against the Davidic descent claimed by the Christian Church. Magic may have been ascribed him over against the miracles recorded in the Gospels; and the degrading fate both on earth and hereafter of which the legends speak may be simply directed against the ideas of the assumption and the resurrection of Jesus. The Jewish legends relating to Jesus appear less inimical in character when compared with the parallel passages which are found in pagan authors and Christian sources, more especially as such legends are fixed and frequently occurring themes of folk-lore; and imaginations must have been especially excited by the historical importance which the figure of Jesus came to have for the Jews. The earliest authenticated passage ascribing illegitimate birth to Jesus is that in Yeb. iv. 3. The mysterious phrase ("that man") cited in this passage as occurring in a family register which R. Simeon ben Azza is said to have found seems to indicate that it refers to Jesus (see Derenbourg in "R. E. J." i. 293), and here occur also the two expressions so often applied to Jesus in later literature— (= "that anonymous one," the name of Jesus being avoided) and (="bastard"; for which in later times was used). Such a family register may have been preserved at Jerusalem in the Judæo-Christian community."

Most Do, those who don't ? lie about it, like one answerer here, who Claims he didn't fulfill the Jewish requirements which He did with empriacle evidence to back this up, The Jews rejected Jesus because He failed, in their eyes, to do what they expected their Messiah to do—destroy evil and all their enemies and establish an eternal kingdom with Israel as the preeminent nation in the world. The prophecies in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 describe a suffering Messiah who would be persecuted and killed, but the Jews chose to focus instead on those prophecies that discuss His glorious victories, not His crucifixion.

The commentaries in the Talmud, written before the onset of Christianity, clearly discuss the Messianic prophecies of Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 and puzzle over how these would be fulfilled with the glorious setting up of the kingdom of the Messiah. After the church used these prophecies to prove the claims of Christ, the Jews took the position that the prophecies did not refer to the Messiah, but to Israel or some other person.

The Jews believed that the Messiah, the prophet which Moses spoke about, would come and deliver them from Roman bondage and set up a kingdom where they would be the rulers. Two of the disciples, James and John, even asked to sit at Jesus’ right and left in His kingdom when He came into His glory. The people of Jerusalem also thought He would deliver them. They shouted praises to God for the mighty works they had seen Jesus do and called out, “Hosanna, save us,” when He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey (Matthew 21:9). They treated Him like a conquering king. Then, when He allowed Himself to be arrested, tried, and crucified on a cursed cross, the people stopped believing that He was the promised prophet. They rejected their Messiah (Matthew 27:22).

Note that Paul tells the church that the spiritual blindness of Israel is a “mystery” that had not previously been revealed (Romans chapters 9–11). For thousands of years, Israel had been the one nation that looked to God while the Gentile nations generally rejected the light and chose to live in spiritual darkness. Israel and her inspired prophets revealed monotheism—one God who was personally interested in mankind’s destiny of heaven or hell, the path to salvation, the written Word with the Ten Commandments. Yet Israel rejected her prophesied Messiah, and the promises of the kingdom of heaven were postponed. A veil of spiritual blindness fell upon the eyes of the Jews, who previously were the most spiritually discerning people. As Paul explained, this hardening on the part of Israel led to the blessing of the Gentiles who would believe in Jesus and accept Him as Lord and Savior.

Two thousand years after He came to the nation of Israel as their Messiah, Christ is still (for the most part) rejected by the Jews. Many Jews today (some say at least half of all living Jews) identify themselves as Jewish but prefer to remain “secular.” They identify with no particular Jewish movement and have no understanding or affiliation with any Jewish biblical roots. The concept of Messiah as expressed in the Hebrew Scriptures or Judaism’s “13 Principles of Faith” is foreign to most Jews today.

But one concept is generally held as universal: Jews must have nothing to do with Jesus! Most Jews today perceive the last 2,000 years of historical Jewish persecution to be at the hands of so-called “Christians.” From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to the pogroms in Europe, to Hitler’s Holocaust—Jews ultimately believe that they are being held responsible for the death of Jesus Christ and are being persecuted for that reason. They, therefore, reject Him today.

The good news is that many Jews are turning to Christ today. The God of Israel has always been faithful to keep a “remnant” of believing Jews to Himself. In the United States alone, some estimates say that there are over 100,000 Jewish believers in Jesus, and the numbers are growing all the time.

Like everybody else, there are different opinions. Many folks of all faiths believe there's no evidence Jesus existed. Jews just don't think it's that important.

Jesus did not say anything that the progressive rabbis of his day were not already saying,and it is possible (likely?) that he borrowed a great deal from their teachings.