Jesus asked the Religious authorities of Jerusalem to Believe in him because of the Father's works which he Accomplished. 373 But such an act of Faith must go through a mysterious death to self, for a new "Birth from above" under the influence of divine Grace. 374 Such a demand for Conversion in the face of so surpriSing a fulfilment of the Promises 375 allows one to understand the Sanhedrin's tragic misUnderstanding of Jesus: they judged that he deServed the death sentence as a blasphemer. 376 The Members of the Sanhedrin were thus acting at the same time out of "ignorance" and the "hardness" of their "unbelief". 377