Why did the Jewish leaders leave Paul after their meeting in Rome?
The Jewish leaders departed because they could not agree among themselves; after Paul spoke, they remained divided rather than united. Their disagreement followed Paul's appeal to Isaiah's prophecy about hearing without understanding, and Scripture records that they left when no consensus was reached.
Les explains that after these Jewish leaders in Rome had come to meet with Paul where he was under house arrest, they agreed not among themselves, and so they departed. In other words, they left because they couldn't agree on anything. Paul had spoken one word to them and went back to the Old Testament, saying that the Holy Spirit spoke well by Isaiah: "Go to this people, and say, Hearing you shall hear, and not understand." Their departure was tied to their division and inability to agree after Paul's message.
And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
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What word did Paul speak to the Jewish leaders in Rome?
The one word Paul spoke to the Roman Jewish leaders was the word of the Holy Spirit spoken through Isaiah, showing Paul goes back to the Old Testament.