I'm sure the following point has been raised before, but I would be interested to hear how it is countered by Christians: If Jesus was the true Messiah - whose coming is foretold in the Old Testament, and whose coming would in some way liberate the Jews, how come he seems to have failed in his mission i.e. he was not recognised as the Messiah by the Jews - or impacted on their lives. If he was the true Messiah, something somewhere seems to have gone dreadfully wrong.