What did the Jewish people get wrong?

[Neostarwcc]

Yes, I know that they don't believe that Jesus is the messiah as foretold in the Hebrew Bible. But, what exactly did they get wrong? Christ fulfilled many of the prophecies about the coming messiah. Is it through their own ignorance that they deny Christ? Or is there a specific biblical reason?

Because not only do they deny the messiah. But they completely abandon their own for believing in the messiah. Why is that? That would be like a family member being abandoned for believing in Buddah in a Christian family. Yes sure it happens all the time but, why? I cannot imagine denying my son for being different than I am.

The Jewish people believe in God's promise to Abraham yes? Well God promised to save people from every tribe, language and nation. How can the messiah pull that off if the messiah has not come yet?

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Yes, I know that they don't believe that Jesus is the messiah as foretold in the Hebrew Bible. But, what exactly did they get wrong? Christ fulfilled many of the prophecies about the coming messiah. Is it through their own ignorance that they deny Christ? Or is there a specific biblical reason?

Because not only do they deny the messiah. But they completely abandon their own for believing in the messiah. Why is that? That would be like a family member being abandoned for believing in Buddah in a Christian family. Yes sure it happens all the time but, why? I cannot imagine denying my son for being different than I am.

The Jewish people believe in God's promise to Abraham yes? Well God promised to save people from every tribe, language and nation. How can the messiah pull that off if the messiah has not come yet?

"Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed”

They (Jews) did not see beyond their own nation. The promise is for all nations. This is what they got wrong.
Blessings

 

[bling]

They also did not know God, because Jesus was God here on earth and they did not recognize God.

 

[Neostarwcc]

They also did not know God, because Jesus was God here on earth and they did not recognize God.

Couldn't that be excusable though? The Hebrew Scriptures never really described what God looked like aside from God's attributes. Christ also was a human being claiming to be God a huge blasphemy that only the insane would claim. I don't think the Jews knew that God could manifest himself into human form from human Parents.

That being said Jesus did many miracles in front of the Jews. I wonder why they didn't at least consider Jesus a prophet.

 

[Neostarwcc]

"Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed”

They (Jews) did not see beyond their own nation. The promise is for all nations. This is what they got wrong.
Blessings

Oh I see. God made many promises to Abraham. I wonder why they just focus on the one promise when his main promise was a people as vast as the stars.

 

[com7fy8]

God proved Himself to the Jews, in the time of Moses, and still Jews turned against God. But not all Jews did that.

And Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, and certain Jews knew this but they tried to kill Lazarus. So, there were Jews who had proof right in their faces and still they refused. But other Jews did not do that.

They were like Satan when he was in Heaven and he knew Jesus but he did not admire and appreciate and adore Christ. This is how foolish and stupid evil is . . . so unreasonable and incapable. And ones of Satan's spirit can actually do things like that.

There is "the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience." (in Ephesians 2:2) And a point is that not only Jews are of this spirit of disobeying God. And, again . . . not all Jews have so lived for evil.

 

[Clare73]

Yes, I know that they don't believe that Jesus is the messiah as foretold in the Hebrew Bible. But, what exactly did they get wrong? Christ fulfilled many of the prophecies about the coming messiah. Is it through their own ignorance that they deny Christ? Or is there a specific biblical reason?

Because not only do they deny the messiah. But they completely abandon their own for believing in the messiah. Why is that? That would be like a family member being abandoned for believing in Buddah in a Christian family. Yes sure it happens all the time but, why? I cannot imagine denying my son for being different than I am.

The Jewish people believe in God's promise to Abraham yes? Well God promised to save people from every tribe, language and nation. How can the messiah pull that off if the messiah has not come yet?

It wasn't a failure of understanding, it was the failure of hardened hearts.

It was the religious leaders who rejected him, tried to persuade the people to do so, and had him killed.
Many people and many priests did accept him after the resurrection.
But the leaders continued to reject him and try to falsify the resurrection.

Why?
Because they expected a king who would free them from the Romans and set up their own kingdom.
And that false belief of an earthly Jewish kingdom continues to this day, even in the church.
And because they were corrupt, and he was a threat to their religious power.

 

[Nj_]

Couldn't that be excusable though? The Hebrew Scriptures never really described what God looked like aside from God's attributes. Christ also was a human being claiming to be God a huge blasphemy that only the insane would claim. I don't think the Jews knew that God could manifest himself into human form from human Parents.

That being said Jesus did many miracles in front of the Jews. I wonder why they didn't at least consider Jesus a prophet.

"They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?” Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word. I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.”
“Abraham is our father,” they answered. “If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do what Abraham did. As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. You are doing the works of your own father.”" - John 8:33-41

 

[Nj_]

Yes, I know that they don't believe that Jesus is the messiah as foretold in the Hebrew Bible. But, what exactly did they get wrong? Christ fulfilled many of the prophecies about the coming messiah. Is it through their own ignorance that they deny Christ? Or is there a specific biblical reason?

Because not only do they deny the messiah. But they completely abandon their own for believing in the messiah. Why is that? That would be like a family member being abandoned for believing in Buddah in a Christian family. Yes sure it happens all the time but, why? I cannot imagine denying my son for being different than I am.

The Jewish people believe in God's promise to Abraham yes? Well God promised to save people from every tribe, language and nation. How can the messiah pull that off if the messiah has not come yet?

What did they get wrong? An awful lot of stuff. First of all, they deny Christ as you rightly pointed out. I would disagree that they believe in God's promise to Abraham however since they believe these promises are still for them in this day and age when the Bible is clear that the promises spoken to Abraham were spoken unto his seed, who is Christ, and that if we are Christ's then we are Abraham's and heirs according to the promise (Galatians 3:16, Galatians 3:29).

Jews also deny the existence of Hell, they also teach a lot of disgusting things. This is in their Talmud for example:

Spoiler: This is pretty disgusting

"And Rabbi Elazar said: What is the meaning of that which is written: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Genesis 2:23)? This teaches that Adam had intercourse with each animal and beast in his search for his mate, and his mind was not at ease, in accordance with the verse: “And for Adam, there was not found a helpmate for him” (Genesis 2:20), until he had intercourse with Eve".

- Yevamot 63a

This is, of course, disgusting, heretical, and a lie, but they will not even try to hide it, you can easily find this in Jewish sites such as Sefaria.

So, yeah, to answer the question, Jews got a lot wrong. I would also recommend reading Peters Schäfer's 'Jesus in the Talmud' to see more specifically what they say about our Lord Jesus Christ, I'll have to warn you though, it's disgusting, blasphemous, and will probably make you angry. Now, Jews need the Gospel just as any other members of any false religion do, and as Christians, we are supposed to pray for them and their conversion, and to preach the Gospel to them, regardless of how disgusting and/or outrageous some of their beliefs might be.

 

[Hawkins]

That being said Jesus did many miracles in front of the Jews. I wonder why they didn't at least consider Jesus a prophet.

In front of how many Jews and who they are? There was no Internet or CNN back then.

Matthew 23
2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

The Jewish hierarchy is like this, Pharisees own Judaism. That's how Jesus describes them as sitting in Moses' seat. Religious issues will have to go through the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem, mainly through the Pharisees and law experts, while the Sadducees mainly take care of Temple-related matters. Together they (i.e., Pharisees, Sadducees, law experts and etc.) handle Jewish law-related issues.

The 6000 Pharisees dictate Judaism while most of them are in Jerusalem. Jesus' ministry was in the Galilee region. Even when Jesus' miracles are performed in front of the many, there's still a gap for those elite Pharisees living in Jerusalem to accept them as facts instead of hearsay. Plus that there were other claimed Messiahs possibly with faked and rumored miracles before Jesus. Satan is also busy doing his evil job.

The most critical part is that the Pharisees as the guardian of Judaism controlling the religion of the majority of the Jews don't practice what they teach. They thus don't stay close to God. They don't maintain a good relationship with God for them to reckon the Messiah while dictating their influence on the Jews in the majority.

God on the other hand, even without the man-made authority (i.e., Pharisees and the Great Sanhedrin), went through the same process to allow Jesus' deeds to be witnessed by the Jews (including the disciples) and for their testimonies to be heard first among the Jews. It is after the Pentecost event that the disciples started preaching the gospel to the gentiles and the world, that is, through Christianity instead of Judaism.