Matthew 23:26 ASV and Matthew 23:37 ASV

The irony of God's chosen people is that they where the very ones who hung Him on a cross. They missed his every sign and demonstrated how not to do things more than how to do things. The very ones destined to bring forth the Savior of the world missed His coming not because of lack of intelligence. But because they were "not willing". Jeremiah 29:13