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A common theme throughout Jesus’ ministry is the fizzling eagerness and accompanying unbelief of the “righteous” (or sons of Abraham), which is contrasted with the initial unbelief of sinning Israelites that morphs into ardent belief. A trait of this religious unbelief is a lack of intellectual honesty. Rather, the religious are political, calculating, and seek to preserve their agenda and self-interests. And it was these characteristics that shielded some of the sons of Abraham from a revelation of Christ. (Also, they didn’t believe their own eyes, but chose to pursue their own agendas.)