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As to why Jesus can't just use his supernatural powers to magic his listeners into accepting the message, there's Paul's idea that the Jews were "hardened" deliberately by God as part of his 4D chess move plan to have the Jews' rejection of the gospel lead to it being accepted in large numbers by the
Gentiles instead. But then you get into difficult questions like "If God is able and willing to magic some people into being resistant to the gospel, why doesn't God just magic everyone into being receptive instead, Jews and Gentiles alike, no 4D chess needed? And yeah that's a tough one.