Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').
(His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)