That Jesus the crucified, now proclaimed to be risen from the dead, should grant forgiveness of sins and judge the quick and the dead, and thus share the ultimate prerogatives of God Almighty, that he the Son of Man should be standing on the right hand of God (Acts 7: 55f.), was the great stone of stumbling, which gave such offence to recalcitrant Judaism, for it was unwilling to go forward with the Christian Church in accepting the full implication of the resurrection of Christ.
