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A:Christians believe that the first-century Jewish expectation of a Messiah should have facilitated their acceptance of Jesus. However, they were expecting a great military leader who would help them defeat the Romans, and Jesus did not meet that expectation. There is no evidence that the Jews saw him as a Messiah.

Christians believe that the Jewish belief that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem should have facilitated their acceptance of Jesus. However, the tradition that Jesus was born in Bethlehem seems to have been unknown until the last quarter of the first century, by which time a permanent schism had begun to open between the Jews and Christians.

Christianity arose in the Jewish milieu but, in spite of Acts of the Apostles, seems to have achieved little in terms of acceptance by Palestinian Jews.

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