Acts 3:17

And Pilate summoned the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

“But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

“These things they will do because they did not know the Father or Me.

“For those who live in Jerusalem, and their rulers, recognizing neither Him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

And they said to him, “We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers come here and reported or spoken anything bad about you.

being darkened in their mind, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart.