"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
2. They had also changed the meaning of the words God had given them.  God had promised a Messiah whose paradoxical qualities of glory and humiliation should have been sufficient to identify him when he came; but the hierarchy promptly projected two Messiahs, making one of them the lowly and suffering priest, and the other the mighty conqueror who would chase the Romans and restore the Solomonic empire.