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The negative reaction of the Sanhedrin and Jewish leaders...
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The negative reaction of the Sanhedrin and Jewish leaders to Peter's witness is in direct contradiction to Jesus' Easter Word. As famed French intellectual Blaise Pascal once wrote: "Then Jesus Christ comes to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves, that it is their passions that cut them off from God, that he has come to destroy these passions, and to give men his grace" (Pensees, p. 164).