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because they do not pray.

Et tu conversus confirma fratres tuos. But before, conversus Jesus respexit
Petrum.147

Saint Peter asks permission to strike Malchus and strikes before hearing the
answer. Jesus Christ replies afterwards.

The word, Galilee, which the mob pronounced as if by chance, in accusing
Jesus Christ before Pilate, afforded Pilate a reason for sending Jesus
Christ to Herod. And thereby the mystery was accomplished, that He should be
judged by Jews and Gentiles. Chance was apparently the cause of the
accomplishment of the mystery.

745. Those who have a difficulty in believing seek a reason in the fact that
the Jews do not believe. "Were this so clear," say they, "why did the Jews
not believe"? And they almost wish that they had believed, so as not to be
kept back by the example of their refusal. But it is their very refusal that
is the foundation of our faith. We should be much less disposed to the
faith, if they were on our side. We should then have a more ample pretext.
The wonderful thing is to have made the Jews great lovers of the things
foretold, and great enemies of their fulfilment.

746. The Jews were accustomed to great and striking miracles, and so, having
had the great miracles of the Red Sea and of the land of Canaan as an
epitome of the great deeds of their Messiah, they therefore looked for more
striking miracles, of which those of Moses were only the patterns.

747. The carnal Jews and the heathen have their calamities, and Christians
also. There is no Redeemer for the heathen, for they do not so much as hope
for one. There is no Redeemer for the Jews; they hope for Him in vain. There
is a Redeemer only for Christians