Then you’re not the Egyptian who stirred up a rebellion some time ago—and led four thousand men of the Assassins out into the desert?”
“So if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. Or, ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
“Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on account of Me.
Now a man named Bar-Abba had been in jail with the rebels who had committed murder during the rebellion.
(He was someone who had been thrown into prison for a rebellion in the city and murder.)
When we are slandered, we speak kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the dregs of all things—even to this moment.