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the Jews were not justified is arresting or seeking to kill the Apostle Paul, because the message the Apostle Paul was proclaiming to them: the Gospel of Jesus Christ, was and is totally consistent with the Torah along with the Old Testament prophecies regarding the promised Messiah. The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled all of the prophecies regarding the Messiah's first advent to a tee as well as providing a propititiatory sacrifice to God for all of our sins.

The gospel is not consistent with the Tanakh at all. Human sacrifice is forbidden, vicarious human atonement is forbidden, G-d is not a god-man, there is never to be a new Torah and Jesus did not fulfill messianic prophecies that could be measured objectively, only prophecies that could be retro actively applied and not objectively measured. Tanakh does not teach that messiah ben Yosef and messiah ben David are the same person. Nor is the messiah a god-man hybrid.

For all the lofty language Paul uses, he does in fact change Torah and was worthy of his punishment. The law is forever Psalm 111,

And I shall give them one heart, and shall put a new spirit within them. And I shall take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God. (Ezekiel 11:19-20)

My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees. (Ezekiel 37:24)

And many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths," for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:3)

The law is forever, the Jewish people will keep the law in the messianic era. The 3rd temple will be rebuilt, sacrificial system returns (Ezek 44) The priesthood returns and on and on. None of this is NT, Pauline doctrine. None. Paul spoke presumptuously in the name of G-d. Nor did the man from Nazareth have authority because it makes G-d out to be A) a liar B) a deciever C) a G-d who changes his mind, and HaShem does not change his salvation program mid-stream.

But it is not too late for Christians either. They can repent, give up their idolatry, serve HaShem via the sheva mitzvot or convert into Judaism. G-ds grace has always been there for Gentiles, they didnt need a Grecco-Roman god-man and a new Torah.