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, ‘Lo, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; if they say, ‘Lo, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
“Blessed are you when men 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.
when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.