Jews pray for the dead, so why don’t modern Christians? 👇🏻 📌 SAVE this 💬 SHARE this At the time of Jesus, Jews prayed for the dead—and the first Christians, who were Jewish, continued this practice. It’s a tradition rooted in scripture and prayer that Catholics and Orthodox still uphold today. In 2 Maccabees 12:44-46, Judas Maccabeus prays for fallen soldiers, declaring that it is “a holy and pious thought to pray for the dead.” This belief in purification after death was a core part of Jewi