The Jesus Diet

Before I was a lawyer, I was a seminarian, and I have studied this question as deeply as anyone. I am convinced that Jesus came out of the Essene movement, which emphasized eating an all-vegetable diet, because they believed that was the diet of the legendary Eden and would be the diet of the messiah and the messianic era. They chose that diet because they believed that cruelty to animals was wrong, as Noah taught according to the seven Noahide Commandments.The Essenes were known for being healthy and especially long lived. Eusebius says that one of Jesus’ nephews lived to be 120.