Dialogue with Trypho

You see how He now speaks to the people, saying a little before: "As the grape shall be found in the cluster, and they will say, 'Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it;' so will I do for My servant’s sake: for His sake I will not destroy them all." And then He adds: "And I shall bring forth the seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah." It is clear then that if He is angry with them and threatens to leave very few of them, He promises to bring forth others who will dwell in His mountain.

But these are the ones He said He would sow and beget. For you neither accept Him when He calls you nor listen to Him when He speaks to you, but have done evil in the presence of the Lord.

But the greatest of your wickedness lies in this, that you hate the Righteous One, and killed Him; and so treat those who have received from Him all that they are and have, and who are pious, righteous, and humane.

Therefore "woe unto their soul," says the Lord, "for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying, 'Let us take away the righteous, for he is distasteful to us.'" For indeed you are not in the habit of sacrificing to Baal, like your fathers, or of placing cakes in groves and on high places for the host of heaven: but you have not accepted God’s Christ. For he who does not know Him, does not know the will of God; and he who insults and hates Him, insults and hates Him who sent Him.

And whoever does not believe in Him, does not believe the declarations of the prophets, who preached and proclaimed Him to all.