The Fallacy of Literal Interpretation

[Ben Hur]

None were Jews?? I thought they were all Jews....they just followed Jesus....at the time I thought Jews followed the teachings of various teachers/rabbi....Jesus followers were all still self identified as Jews, no? A splinter sect maybe, but still Jews?

Jesus' followers yes, but not Paul's followers. Jews would never teach about another of their fellow Jews that he was the son of a god with an earthly woman. This is the myth of the Greek demigod. There is no such a thing in Judaism which was the Faith of Jesus.