Are you not the Egyptian who in past days caused an uproar and led the four thousand men of the Sicarii out into the wilderness?”
“So, if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert,’ do not go there; or, ‘Look, He is in the private chambers,’ do not believe it.
“Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
There was one named Barabbas, who had committed murder in the insurrection and was bound with the rebels.
This man had been thrown in prison for an insurrection in the city and for murder.
Being slandered, we encourage. We are made as the filth of the world, and are the refuse of all things to this day.