Are you not the Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”
So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.
a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder.