Jesus was born to Jewish parents, lived in a Jewish culture, ate as a Jew, read and taught in the synagogue like a Jew, and was called 'rabbi' by some of his followers.

So did this make Jesus a Jew? 

Jesus was sent by His heavenly Father to the world, fully God yet fully man. Jesus on occasions seemed to act in a way that was contradictory to the holy Jewish law, and because of His miracles, His teachings, His death and resurrection, He fulfilled the New Covenant between God and man.

So did this make Jesus a Christian?

Jesus taught that all mankind - not just the Jewish people - could come to God, not through legalism or religion, but through the love of the Father. 

Yet more evidence that seems to point to the fact that Jesus was more Christian than Jew.

Was Jesus a Jew or a Christian?

By the very definition of the word 'Christian' - 'one who follows Christ' - Jesus could not have been a Christian as He could not follow himself.  So this makes Jesus a Jew? Yes, but no ordinary Jew.  Jesus revealed himself as God in human (Jewish) flesh to the Jews, despite the fact that over thousands of Old Testament years the Jewish people rebelled against God and ignored the prophets foretelling that the Messiah - Jesus - would come.

After His death, resurrection, and ascension, and after the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the followers of Jesus were not called Christians, they were called 'The Way'. These followers included both Jewish and non-Jewish people. Many arguments broke out amongst these believers about whether the non-Jews needed to adhere to the Jewish laws, such as circumcision and the restriction of certain food. The apostle Paul wrote in many of his letters to the followers of Christ that Jesus had opened the way for all to come to the Father, Jewish and non-Jewish, whether circumcised or not.  Jesus, the true and better Jew, proclaimed relation not religion,  and the condition of hearts, not the legalism of adhering to rules.

Jesus was a Jew, the true and better Jew, who pointed all people to a new covenant relationship with God. Today this is called Christianity.