Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand 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.
“Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Now a man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder during the insurrection.
(This was a man who had been put in prison for an insurrection that had taken place in the city and for murder.)
when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.