Another Messianic-Jew site say that the Otot HaMashiach and Zohar are pre-Christian not post Christian
Again, for the sake of a teaching emphasis, Kayafa (Caiaphas) speaking as a prophet proclaims that Yeshua must be executed, NOT as a punishment for claiming to be the Messiah but, on the contrary, in order to fulfill his own peculiar Messianic kismet: “Yeshua,” he says, “must die for the nation [of Israel]…and not for the nation only, but to gather together in unity [all] the scattered children of God” (the Jews of the Diaspora who had to be regathered to Eretz Yisrael at the EndTime).
Kayafa is calling on the authority of Jewish Oral Scripture. The first part of his prophecy that “Yeshua [must] die for the nation” is paralleled in the Jewish, Pre-Christian Oral Scripture: “When God desires to give healing to the world He smites one righteous man among them…and through him gives healing to all…A righteous man is never afflicted save to bring healing to his generation and to make atonement for it” (Zohar 5.218a).
This Atoning Messiah of Judaism not only “dies for the people,” but also rises from the dead after three days – as shown in another Jewish Oral Scripture that states: “[The] Messiah [ben Joseph] will…be slain and lay in the streets for three days. Then…the prophet Elijah will go and revive [him] … And in the hour when the Tribes of Israel will come forth, Clouds of Glory will go before them. And the Holy One, blessed be He, will open for them the sources of the Tree of Life, and will give them to drink on that day” (Otot HaMashiach).
Clearly, this pre-Christian, Judaic doctrine anticipates Messiah’s prediction throughout the Gospels that on the “third day” He would “rise again.” This prediction is based entirely on Jewish Oral Scripture – it is not to be found anywhere in the Jewish Bible (Tanack). Later, Rav Shaul (Paul) refers to the importance of the “three days” and states categorically that the prediction was taught in the Scripture (1 Corinthians 15:4). It is not located anywhere in the Tanack, but it is found in the Oral Scripture of the time.
The second part of Kayafa’s prophecy – “and not for the nation only, but to gather together in unity the scattered children of God” out of the Diaspora – refers to another Jewish Oral Scripture:
“And then the Community of Israel communes with the Holy One, blessed be He, and that hour is a time of Grace for all, and the King [Messiah] holds out to [Israel], and all who are with her, his scepter of the thread of Grace so that they all may be wholly united to the Holy King” (Zohar 5.45a). Furthermore, a Mishnah by Maimonides states, “If a king will arise from the House of David [who] …gathers the dispersed of Israel [as Kayafa believes Yeshua could do], he is definitely the Messiah” (Mishnah Torah: Hilchot Melachim U’Milchamoteihem 4.11).
Thus, by alluding to these two commonly held doctrines, Kayafa prevails, and the assembled Jewish leaders finally “grasp the situation:” Yeshua has fulfilled the “signs of the Messiah” and, therefore, according to Jewish Oral Scripture, he must enter the next stage of the scenario, which is to “die for the people” in order to “make atonement for His generation” and “unite the scattered children of God.” Consequently, they determine to “kill” him, not as a punishment for His claims, but to catalyze His Messianic vocation
New light is now thrown on why the Jewish “mob” demanded Mashiach’s crucifixion (Matthew 27:11, Mark 15:1, Luke 23:13, John 19:1). Viewed from the perspective of Kayafa’s prophecy, and the Jewish Oral Scriptures that prompted it, their assertion “his blood be on us and our children” (Matthew 27:25) can now be taken to mean, as Rav Shaul later wrote, “Through his blood, we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins” (Ephesians 1:1-7).
biblicalresearchinstitute.com/jewish_thoughtform_1.html
those people are Jews…why would they believe in what they believe in if it’s totally strange from them?