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People at the time of Christ thought that certain particular scriptures referred to the coming Christ, and if their approach was to focus completely on their own interpretation of those scriptures, then any explanations given them by a Christian based on the New Testament might well have had no effect. For example, someone clinging to the vision that the Christ would be an earthly ruler, would have no interest in an explanation of why the Christ should suffer. Thus, in a dialogue between a Jewish person and a Christian person, if the Jewish person were to simply focus on his own knowledge, in the end he would be no closer to accepting Christ then when he started. Indifference to Christ's message, brought about by a self-centered approach to the scriptures, would seem to be quite a natural initial response. The chosen people know who they are, and feel secure regarding the meaning of their holy words. The last thing they would expect or welcome would be someone outside of their Faith claiming to have a new and divine explanation
(77:6)
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