23 Bible Verses about Israel Hardened
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and the Jews, after a number of days had elapsed, conspired to make away with him.
The populace of the town was divided; some sided with the Jews, some with the apostles.
so, as Paul wished him to go abroad with him, he took and circumcised him on account of the local Jews, all of whom knew his father had been a Greek.
But the Jews were aroused to jealousy; they got hold of some idle rascals to form a mob and set the town in an uproar; they attacked Jason's house in the endeavour to bring them out before the populace,
But when the Jews of Thessalonica heard that Paul was proclaiming the word of God at Beroea as well, they came to create a disturbance and a riot among the crowds at Beroea too.
where he spent three months. Just as he was on the point of sailing for Syria, the Jews laid a plot against him. He therefore resolved to return through Macedonia.
how I served the Lord in all humility, with many a tear and many a trial which I encountered owing to the plots of the Jews,
shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!"
"King Agrippa and all here present," said Festus, "you see before you a man of whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem and also here have complained to me. They loudly insist he ought not to live any longer.
a promise which our twelve tribes hope to gain by serving God earnestly both night and day. And I am actually impeached by Jews for this hope, O king!
The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.
Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal; that is where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong whatever to the Jews ??you know that perfectly well.
whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law.
To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.
I tell you therefore that the Realm of God will be taken from you and given to a nation that bears the fruits of the Realm.
while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth."
I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen;
He replied, "It was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that I was sent."
Well, if their lapse has enriched the world, if their defection is the gain of the Gentiles, what will it mean when they all come in?
God has not repudiated his People, his predestined People! Surely you know what scripture says in the passage called 'Elijah'? You know how he pleads with God against Israel:
Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it ??8 as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not ??down to this very day.
