Paragraph 1. JESUS AND ISRAEL

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Jesus asked the religious authorities of Jerusalem to believe in him because of
the Father’s works which he accomplished.³⁷³ But such an act of faith
must go through a mysterious death to self, for a new “birth from above”
under the influence of divine grace.³⁷⁴ Such a demand for conversion in
the face of so surprising a fulfilment of the promises³⁷⁵ allows one to
understand the Sanhedrin’s tragic misunderstanding of Jesus: they judged that
he deserved the death sentence as a blasphemer.³⁷⁶ The members of the
Sanhedrin were thus acting at the same time out of “ignorance” and
the “hardness” of their “unbelief”.³⁷⁷

PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
  - Article 4 “JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED”
    - Paragraph 1. JESUS AND ISRAEL

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