Hear about Jesus as a Jew at Good Friday services

The Costa Mesa Senior Center’s Good Friday services will include a lecture by Aramaic Bible scholar Rocco Errico, whom organizers hope will provide a unique perspective on the life of Jesus.

“He’s such a tremendous scholar and has such an important message about Jesus and who he really was,” said Senior Pastor James Turrell of the Costa Mesa Center for Spiritual Discovery, which is hosting the event. “The tendency is to make Jesus into a Western figure, when he was really a Jew and a Semite … it’s caused a lot of confusion among traditional Christian churches in terms of how they see and understand Christ.”

The service begins at 7 p.m. Friday, at the Costa Mesa senior center at 695 W 19th St.

— Chris Caesar