Our priest (Catholic) tells a story once a year during Passover, because there are still echoes of the whole “Christ Killer” thing even now.
The Almighty is talking to the Son, before the Nativity. He says “My Son, the Jewish people are my chosen people. I promised them that. Yet humanity has taken my wish for them to be fruitful and multiply more seriously than all the Commandments combined. They are yours to bring Home.”
It’s a silly little story, I know. But it gets the point across, quite clearly. Fr. Peters is a very smart man.
Unfortunately, too many people don’t realize that at the time Jesus was crucified, the Temple at Jerusalem had devolved into a corrupt organization under Roman rule. In effect, some scholars theorized that Temple leaders wanted Jesus out of the way because Jesus exposed the corruption at the Temple.