• ἔρημος — SBLGNT
• ἔρημος — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont

2. See by how many things He has warned them. He said, You condemn your fathers, in that you say, We would not have been partakers with them; and this is no little thing to shame them. He said, While ye condemn them, you do worse things, even ye yourselves; and this is sufficient to cover them with disgrace. He said, These things shall not be without punishment; and hence he im…

1. They who come to the divine preaching and give heed to the faith, must manifest the desire of thirsty men for water, and kindle in themselves a similar longing; so will they be able also very carefully to retain what is said. For as thirsty men, when they have taken a bowl, eagerly drain it and then desist, so too they who hear the divine oracles if they receive them thirsti…

1. Oh the folly of the Jews! seeking Him as they did before the Passover, and then having found Him in the midst of them, and having often attempted to take Him by their own or by others' hands without being able; they were not even so awed by His power, but set themselves to their wickedness, and desisted not. For it says, that they continually made the attempt; These words sp…

1. The heathen are stuck fast in the destruction which they made; in the trap which they hid is their foot taken. Psalm 9:15, Septuagint This has been the case with the Jews. They said that they would kill Jesus, lest the Romans should come and take away their place and nation; and when they had killed Him, these things happened unto them, and when they had done that by doing w…

Covers the completion of the Galilee campaign, the Zealot takeover of Jerusalem, factional fighting between Zealot groups, and the destruction of the moderate priestly leadership. Josephus portrays the internal strife as fulfilling divine judgment on a wicked generation — language that echoes Jesus's own warnings.

Mara bar Serapion, a Syrian Stoic philosopher writing to his son from prison, compares the fates of three wise men unjustly killed: Socrates, Pythagoras, and "the wise King" of the Jews. "What advantage did the Athenians gain from putting Socrates to death? What advantage did the men of Samos gain from burning Pythagoras? What advantage did the Jews gain from executing their wi…