Then yoʋ are not the Egyptian who before these days incited a revolt and led four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”
So if they say to you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
Blessed are you when others reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
And there was a man named Barabbas who was in prison with his fellow insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.
(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection that had taken place in the city, and for murder.)
when we are slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the scum of all things, even to this present time.