24. In spite of the fact that you have been cut from a wild olive tree, you have been grafted onto a cultivated one. So wouldn’t it be easier for these natural branches to be grafted onto the olive tree they belong to?
25. Brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery so that you won’t become arrogant. The minds of some Israelites have become closed until all of God’s non-Jewish people are included.
26. In this way Israel as a whole will be saved, as Scripture says,“The Savior will come from Zion.He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
27. My promise to them will be fulfilledwhen I take away their sins.”
28. The Good News made the Jewish people enemies because of you. But by God’s choice they are loved because of their ancestors.