And We gave Musa the book (prescribed law), and after him We followed him up with (other) messengers. And We gave to Isa, the son of Maryam, clear proofs and strengthened him with the holy spirit. What! whenever there came to you a messenger with that which you did not desire, you considered yourselves great, so some you denied and others you killed.
Musa (PBH) was sent to Bani Israel with the Torah containing the code of conduct for them. Then many messengers of Allah came to them after him, the last in the Israeli lineage being Isa (PBH) who was strengthened with Jibreel (PBH) and given the Injeel. He too performed miracles which were proofs of his prophet hood. Whenever Allah (SWT) sent messengers to them they either proudly rejected them or even killed them just because their messages were against their desires. The reason they gave for their disbelief was that their hearts had a covering which prevented Allah’s message from entering them. Allah (SWT) replies to this statement of theirs that their disbelief was because of His curse on them due to their rejection of the truth.