The difference is that their minds were hardened. You see, the same veil lies over the reading of the old covenant right up to this very day. It isn’t taken away, because it’s in the Messiah that it is abolished.
Yes, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, the veil lies upon their hearts; but ‘whenever he turns back to the Lord, the veil is removed’. Now ‘the Lord’ here means the spirit; and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And all of us, without any veil on our faces,...
2 Corinthians 3:14–18