Spiritual Ignorance Causeth Men to Counter-act Their Doctrinal Knowledge: A Discourse from Acts 13:27

In this discourse, American Baptist pastor Isaac Baptist examines Acts 13:27, offering insights for understanding why Jews did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah, and fulfilled prophecy by rejecting him. Backus first offers a brief survey of “the voices of the prophets of the Old Testament, which were exactly fulfilled in Jesus,” and then considers the “reason why the Jews did not receive him, though they had so often heard these plain predictions.”