Jesus teaching was assiciated with Nazarim

9They did not "split" per se. For a long time Jewish Christians were regarded as a sect of Judaism. They finally broke away and became an independent religion in Hadrian's time after the Hellenist Romans "adopted" the beliefs of the Nazarene and established a church separate from Jerusalem, in Rome. But Christians who also obeyed the law and kept the Sabbath persisted for a long time.

There are also many conflicting views of who ultimately were called the Nazarene.
According to Epiphanius in his Panarion the 4th Century Nazarenes were originally Jewish converts of the Apostles[14] who fled Jerusalem because of Jesus' prophesy on its coming siege ( during the Great Jewish Revolt in 70 A.D.). They fled to Pella, Peraea (which is northeast of Jerusalem), and eventually spread outwards to Beroea and Bashanitis, where they permanently settled.[15] It is close to a historical certainty that Matthew belonged to this group[citation needed], as The Gospels affirm this to be true[citation needed].

The Nazarenes were an early Jewish Christian sect located in and about Jerusalem which proclaimed Jesus of Nazareth was the promised Messiah and the Son of God. The Nazarenes were similar to the Ebionites, in that they considered themselves Jews, maintained an adherence to the Law of Moses, and used only the Aramaic Gospel of the Hebrews, rejecting all the Canonical gospels. However, unlike half of the Ebionites, they accepted the Virgin Birth.[19][20]

As late as the eleventh century Cardinal Humbert of Mourmoutiers still referred to the Nazarene sect as a Sabbath-keeping Christian body existing at that time (Strong’s Cyclopedia, New York, 1874, I, 660). Modern scholars believe it is the Pasagini or Pasagians who are referenced by Cardinal Humbert suggesting the Nazarene sect existed well into the eleventh century and beyond.(The Catholic writings of Bonacursus entitled "Against the Heretics"). It is believed that Gregorius of Bergamo, about 1250 CE, also wrote concerning the Nazarenes as the "Pasagini".
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So there were Nazarenes of Nazareth, Nazarenes in Jerusalem and then the Nazarene sect

n the 4th century Jerome also refers to Nazarenes as those "...who accept Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to observe the old Law." In his Epistle 79, to Augustine, he said:

"What shall I say of the Ebionites who pretend to be Christians? To-day there still exists among the Jews in all the synagogues of the East a heresy which is called that of the Minæans, and which is still condemned by the Pharisees; [its followers] are ordinarily called 'Nasarenes'; they believe that Christ, the son of God, was born of the Virgin Mary, and they hold him to be the one who suffered under Pontius Pilate and ascended to heaven, and in whom we also believe. But while they pretend to be both Jews and Christians, they are neither."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarene_(sect)

So it would seem that after being banished, Jewish Christians who kept the law and circumcised continued with their brand of Judaism for several hundred years in the East. Its possible that there may still be small groups of Nazarene in the Middle East, if we knew where to look

All fascinating stuff!
 
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S.A.M. said:
9They did not "split" per se. For a long time Jewish Christians were regarded as a sect of Judaism. They finally broke away and became an independent religion in Hadrian's time after the Hellenist Romans "adopted" the beliefs of the Nazarene and established a church separate from Jerusalem, in Rome. But Christians who also obeyed the law and kept the Sabbath persisted for a long time.

There are also many conflicting views of who ultimately were called the Nazarene.


So there were Nazarenes of Nazareth, Nazarenes in Jerusalem and then the Nazarene sect



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarene_(sect)

So it would seem that after being banished, Jewish Christians who kept the law and circumcised continued with their brand of Judaism for several hundred years in the East. Its possible that there may still be small groups of Nazarene in the Middle East, if we knew where to look

All fascinating stuff!
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Yes it is interesting , thank you , it is an eye opener
 
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