Had it not been for God blinding Israel, no one but the Jews would have been offered the gift of eternal life. The Jews rejected Jesus because God blinded them. Since their release from Babylon, the Jews had been faithful worshippers of God. They knew the law and followed it. They waited expectantly for God's Messiah—a military leader who would herald a new age of prosperity. Something about that mindset made it historically imperative that belief in Jesus should not take hold over the Jewish population. More... https://www.compellingtruth.org/Jews-reject-Jesus.html