Would someone knowingly reject Christ?

[JohnB445]

As I study the Pharisees, they had the scrolls and were the leader's people looked up to. They have added their own man-made rules to the Torah and even had some paganism involved. As I see their character they were prideful, even hypocrites and greedy since they charged unfair rates for people to worship in the temple or make a sacrifice. Very corrupt in those days.

As Jesus came along he rebuked the Pharisees for their corruption, and Jesus was the only one that fulfilled the prophecies in Isaiah. He has done miracles right in front of the Pharisee's eyes yet they attributed Jesus work to the work of Satan. And even tried to lead people away from Jesus.

Were the Pharisees blind to the scriptures? Or did they know for 100% that Jesus was the messiah but they refused to repent and disregarded him?

I can't think of a reason why someone would reject the Messiah their own very God when they know it is him.

 

[Wordkeeper]

As I study the Pharisees, they had the scrolls and were the leader's people looked up to. They have added their own man-made rules to the Torah and even had some paganism involved. As I see their character they were prideful, even hypocrites and greedy since they charged unfair rates for people to worship in the temple or make a sacrifice. Very corrupt in those days.

As Jesus came along he rebuked the Pharisees for their corruption, and Jesus was the only one that fulfilled the prophecies in Isaiah. He has done miracles right in front of the Pharisee's eyes yet they attributed Jesus work to the work of Satan. And even tried to lead people away from Jesus.

Were the Pharisees blind to the scriptures? Or did they know for 100% that Jesus was the messiah but they refused to repent and disregarded him?

I can't think of a reason why someone would reject the Messiah their own very God when they know it is him.

According to their interpretation of the Bible, the Pharisees saw Israel was the seed of Abraham. But the seed of Abraham is identified by faith, since Isaac was born by faith, so when Jesus confirmed John the Baptist's interpretation, that Jesus was the seed, the Pharisees were upset.

Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8“Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance; 9and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.


John 8:39"Abraham is our father," they replied. "If you were children of Abraham," said Jesus, "you would do the works of Abraham.

Matthew 21:38"But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'

 

[Shempster]

They rejected Jesus because he seemed to challenge their religion, thus challenging their control.
In my experience, today, when people reject Jesus, they are merely rejecting the religion because of the things the Christians do and say.