But the Pharisees and the experts in Moses’ Teachings rejected God’s plan for them. They refused to be baptized.
You ignored all my advice. You did not want me to warn you.
“ ‘How can you say that you are wise and that you have the Lord’s teachings? The scribes have used their pens to turn these teachings into lies.
One of them, an expert in Moses’ Teachings, tested Jesus by asking,
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone to death those sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings! But you were not willing!
But if we say, ‘from humans,’ everyone will stone us to death. They’re convinced that John was a prophet.”
“How can I describe the people who are living now? What are they like?
I didn’t avoid telling you the whole plan of God.
Then Isaiah said about Israel, “All day long I have stretched out my hands to disobedient and rebellious people.”
Since we are God’s coworkers, we urge you not to let God’s kindness be wasted on you.
I don’t reject God’s kindness. If we receive God’s approval by obeying the laws in the Scriptures, then Christ’s death was pointless.
God also decided ahead of time to choose us through Christ according to his plan, which makes everything work the way he intends.