Jesus could not have been the messiah, he did not fulfill the prophecy. - He was not Emmanuel: Born to a married woman, but not the son of her husband, he was a bastard, steeped in sin from the moment of his birth, to make things worse, even by the accounts of his own disciples, he committed sins that would have disqualified him, such as dishonoring his mother, and envying that which belonged to others. - He was not a direct descendant of the line of King David: his genologies all agree on one point, that the man who raised Jesus, Joseph, husband of Mary, was a direct descendant of David, but Mary was not, therefore he could not be the messiah (James, brother of Jesus, however, could have been the messiah) - He was ignorant of the law: the messiah would know the law inside and out, Jesus was tested by the pharisees to see if he could be a good judge, which would have been a step towards him being recognized as the messiah, but he failed the test. First, he failed in knowing the trick, which was that both the woman who committed adultery, and the man she laid with in doing so were to be put to death together. Second, he failed in knowing the difference between the forgivable sins all jews committed, and the deadly sins, which are only put away with death sentences, by making a comparison of the sins of the crowd to the sins of the adulterous woman, and demanding absolute cleanliness as a requirement for the law to be observed, he had shown a profound ignorance of the law. He was given his chance, and he had failed it more spectacularly than the judges could have expected, thinking on this, his anger at the pharisees seems more like the rage of an american idol contestant when the judges start laughing at their terrible performance. Makes a lot more sense now that he went from praising the pharisees as authoritative and benevolent leaders to be obeyed, to cursing them out as liars and deceivers who reject the messiah before them, and of course the hate was mutual from that point, Jesus was now leading a schism that undermined their power, making it harder for them to do their jobs, and making the jewish people divided and thus weaker (bad thing to be, living in the lands of a people you consider to be your enemy). - He was born in the wrong location to be the messiah: By his own admission, Jesus was famously born in the manger of Bethlehem, a far cry from where the messiah was predicted to have had to have been born. (this one I'm less sure about) - He was bent on dividing the jews, when the messiah was supposed to unite them all. - There's more to the prophecy, traits that Jesus didn't possess that would make him ineligible for fulfilling that role, it's ironic that two of the requirements he botched could have been fulfilled by claiming he was the son of his father, and not of God, he wouldn't be a bastard, and thus still immaculate, and he would have been a direct descendant of King David, if he had not done the whole "writing in the sand" bit, he would have aced the first test of the messiah, instead of failing it.