Because they knew him not; did not know him to be the Messiah.

The voices of the prophets; they did not understand the true meaning of the prophecies.

They have fulfilled them; by crucifying Christ, they did what the prophets had foretold. Men who do not understand the meaning of the Bible, and who malignantly persecute those who obey it, may nevertheless, in their opposition, be fulfilling its predictions, and thus adding to the evidences of its divine origin, and of the truth of its declarations.

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