What was the religion of Jesus Christ?
Robert Sungenis answers that the most accurate thing to say is that Jesus lived by the Mosaic religion and the Mosaic law. He hesitates to call it simply Judaism, since Judaism covers many things and had already grown pluralistic in the first century with Pharisees, Essenes, Sadducees and Herodians, so he declines to equate post-cross Judaism with pre-cross Judaism.
A viewer asks what the religion of Jesus Christ was.
Answer
I would hesitate to simply call it 'Judaism,' because Judaism is a conglomeration of things, Hasidic, Reformed, Kabbalah, Midrash, and even in the first century, after Christ died and rose, Judaism became much more pluralistic, with Pharisees, Essenes, Sadducees, and Herodians; its purity was not there anymore. So I hesitate to compare post-cross Judaism with pre-cross Judaism. The best and most accurate thing to say is that Jesus lived by the Mosaic religion, the Mosaic law; that was His religion at that time.