Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

Chapter 6
How the Jewish Nation
Rejected Repentance
Could Jesus accuse people of a crime when
they were innocent?
If someone accused me, for example, of
starting World War I, I would tell him that he was
unreasonable. I wasn’t even born when it started!
But Jesus accused the Jewish leaders of His day
with responsibility and guilt for a crime committed
800 years before any of them were born. Under
such circumstances, how could His hearers
possibly be guilty? His charge against them sounds
like one of the most fantastically irrelevant and
unreasonable ever made.
The story is found in Matthew 23. Jesus has
just finished upbraiding the scribes and Pharisees
with a series of “woes” accompanied by vivid
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