And you will soon see me coming with the power of heaven.” But I am coming, for the world is already in the throes of destruction. In a farcical passage about just such a figure, the Greek philosopher Celsus imagines a Jewish holy man roaming the Galilean countryside, shouting to no one in particular: “I am God, or the servant of God, or a divine spirit. The itinerant preacher wandering from village to village clamoring about the end of the world, a band of ragged followers trailing behind, was a common a sight in Jesus’ time-so common, in fact, that it had become a kind of caricature among the Roman elite. It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth.
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