Prophecy?

I am reading a book by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, entitled "Our Saviour and His Love for Us". This is just something I read today concerning the Jews and their obstinancy keeping them from accepting Christ as the One to come. It is sa comment from St. Pascal.

Pascal did not fail to note an objection that comes naturally to mind with respect to these prophecies (all throughout the Old Testament): "If all this was so clearly foretold to the Jews, why did they not believe it? And why were they not exterminated for resisting something so evident?"

"I answer," he says: "First of all, it was predicted that they would not believe something so clear and that they would not be exterminated. Secondly, nothing brings greater glory to the Messiah; for it was not enough that prophets should exist; it was necessary that their prophecies be preserved without suspicion." That is how everything came to pass. "The Jews, by killing Jesus in order not to accept Him as the Messiah, gave Him the crowning mark of the Messiah. And by continuing to misjudge Him they became the irreproachable witness [speaking against themselves though not wishing to be conscious of it]; and by killing Him and continuing to deny Him, they accomplished the prophecies."

I think it's like the fact that they owned the rope by which they hung themselves. They fulfilled all of the prophecies concerning the coming and the death of He Who was to come.