"As far as I can see, He promises more ill than good.

If He can offer nothing better than the destruction of Jerusalem and the Last Judgment, He might just as well have stayed at home at Nazareth." "No, I've never taken much account of the Last Judgment," said a dealer in skins from Jericho.
"It's quite true," shouted a tailor, "nothing good comes from Galilee!" "Nor from Judaea," laughed an unpatriotic tailor from Joppa.

"I can tell you I expect nothing until we have expelled all our Jewish princes and Rabbis and become Romans out and out.

The Emperor of Rome is the true Messiah.

All the rest should be impaled." So they gave vent to their various opinions.