But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the talmidim, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
And desired of him letters to Dammesek to the Synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Yerushalayim.
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the Congregation, and taught much people. And the talmidim were called "Messianics" first in Antioch.
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and do tshuvah, and I should heal them.
In that same hour said Y'shuw`a to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the Temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Yonah. And he left them, and departed.
Thus saith YY -TZvaot, the Elohim of Yisrael; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Yisrael, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy Torah: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy Commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
But they mocked the messengers of Elohim, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of YY arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto YY , and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve YY your Elohim, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.