Why was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that He might be able to be our brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there is between Christ and the believer! The believer can say, "I have a Brother in heaven; I may be poor, but I have a Brother who is rich, and is a King, and will He suffer me to want while He is on His throne? Oh, no! He loves me; He is my Brother." Believer, wear this blessed thought, like a necklace of diamonds, around the neck of thy memory; put it, as a golden ring, on the finger of recollection, and use it as the King's own seal, stamping the petitions of thy faith with confidence of success. He is a brother born for adversity, treat Him as such.
Christ was also chosen out of the people that He might know our wants and sympathize with us. "He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin." In all our sorrows we have His sympathy. Temptation, pain, disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty-He knows them all, for He has felt all. Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort thee. However difficult and painful thy road, it is marked by the footsteps of thy Saviour; and even when thou reachest the dark valley of the shadow of death, and the deep waters of the swelling Jordan, thou wilt find His footprints there. In all places whithersoever we go, He has been our forerunner; each burden we have to carry, has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel.
"His way was much rougher and darker than mine
Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?"
Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and
consecrated the thorny path for ever.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Some Christians believe the Jews were "chosen" only because they were the most intolerably misguided and in need of correction by God to end the validity of their claims and guide them away from damnation and towards the One True Path to Salvation.
Thankfully, Jesus Christ was able to save a handful of Jews.
Jesus Christ wasn't in the slightest bit interested in reforming Judaism - not a single jot or dot of it. He was here to end Judaism and tell the Jews to, "Cut that shit out!".
Sadly, the Jews had Jesus Christ tortured and crucified as they demanded Hit blood be upon them and their children and mocked Him as He bled out on the cross.
This theory seems reasonable when you look at the divergent paths the Jews and the Christians took throughout history: Christians went on to be inspired by the true teachings of God and His New Covenant, to bless and reshape the world with gifts of philosophy, science, art, culture, agriculture, architecture, medicine, governance and a respect for God given rights (age of enlightenment, industrial revolution, space age, information age) ... whereas the Jews arguably when on to worship shekels and definitively become the most hated and exiled people in human history.
I think there's a lesson in that.
...a lot of stuff to "unpack" there...
...something happened in Babylon, the "Hebrews" entered in and the "Jews" returned back to "Holy Land"....
There are some interesting theories and research suggesting something similar happened to Moses on Mount Sinai. A Hebrew went to the mountain and a deceitful Jew returned. Rand Flem-Ath has done some interesting research about this... research that some people don't want to hear.