[Olog-hai]

Do you understand the context? Jesus was descended from the tribe of Judah due to a promise to David, who was of the tribe of Judah and was the king of the united Israel. As for Israel and Judah, they were divided in the time of Rehoboam, David’s grandson. Jesus reference to the “lost sheep of Israel” does not call the ten tribes Jews.

Same goes for Paul, originally a Pharisee and technically not a Jew, being descended from Benjamin, although regarded as a Jew due to Benjamin and Levi being part of the kingdom of Judah. He is not calling the Lost Ten Tribes Jews in that passage at all.

[barmag25]

Correct. The lost 10 tribes were gone over 700 years before the birth of Christ. Jesus was asked if he was the King of the Jews because that was all that was left.

Pauls reference here is because of prophecies in Jeremiah about the re-unification of all the 12 tribes of Israel at a later date.

[af_vet_1981]

All the tribes are called Jews. That is why Paul, of the tribe of Benjamin, was both an Israelite, a Hebrew, and a Jew. All Israel are brethren, which is the context you are seeking. The myth of the Lost Ten Tribes is false. For example,

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

Luke, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verse thirty six,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James
boldness mine

[Just mythoughts]

Do you understand the context? Jesus was descended from the tribe of Judah due to a promise to David, who was of the tribe of Judah and was the king of the united Israel. As for Israel and Judah, they were divided in the time of Rehoboam, David’s grandson. Jesus reference to the “lost sheep of Israel” does not call the ten tribes Jews. Same goes for Paul, originally a Pharisee and technically not a Jew, being descended from Benjamin, although regarded as a Jew due to Benjamin and Levi being part of the kingdom of Judah. He is not calling the Lost Ten Tribes Jews in that passage at all.

Mary the mother of Jesus, father, was of the tribe of Judah.. Mary's mother a cousin of Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, was from the tribe of Levi.

Christ came in the Order of Melchizedek... King and Priest. Judah and Levi.