The Jews had centered their beliefs on Moses for generations; converting them to a deferent perspective was difficult; still so difficult that today, thousands of years later, only some Jews have been converted. Peter's strategy was to tie Christ to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob and to point out that the Jews had failed to accept what had been foretold by all the Jewish profits.
NOTE: Odd that millions of Gentiles have believed the Jewish profits and the Jews have been reluctant to do so. In 1910 there were about 600 million Christians; now there are over 2.5 billion Christians and only about 19 million Jews.
We also discussed the need to reach out and witness by helping others and agreed that care must be taken not to take credit for what we do. Peter was careful not to take credit for the miracles he perform.
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The Jewish people rejected Jesus and have paid the penalty of disobedience until this day.
““Away with him,” they yelled. “Away with him! Crucify him!” “What? Crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the leading priests shouted back. Then Pilate turned Jesus over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus away.”
John 19:15-16 NLT
The Jewish people have paid the price for their disobedience just as we Gentiles have paid the price for the disobedience of Adam and Eve. Would we have followed Jesus, in His day, after we had been schooled with 4000 years of tradition in the Old Testament teachings?
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