Is Jesus from the tribe of Levi?

Answer 1

Both family trees given in the gospels trace his male line back to David, who was of the Tribe of Judah. Jesus would therefore have been a Judahite.

It's fairly likely that Jesus had some Levite ancestry (the tribes had intermarried considerably by that time), though since descent was traced patrilineally he was of the tribe of Judah.

His cousin John (son of Elizabeth and Zechariah), on the other hand, was of the Tribe of Levi (Zechariah was a temple priest, an occupation limited to Levites).

There's a not-entirely-well-thought-out line of reasoning that goes "Mary's nephew was a Levite, so Mary was a Levite, so Jesus was a union of King (Judah) and Priest (Levi)." However, this doesn't work: John was a Levite because his father was a Levite, and this says nothing about what his mother was. The commonly accepted view is that one of Jesus' lineages in the gospels is that of Joseph (his ancestry legally) and the other is that of Mary (his ancestry biologically), but both of them are clearly within the tribe of Judah.

Answer 2

No

Answer 3

No