Cathy

“Thurman wrote that there were three crucial facts about Jesus. First, “Jesus was a Jew.” Second, “Jesus was a poor Jew.” Third, Jesus, “underprivileged and to a great degree disinherited,” was not a Roman citizen. What this meant was that Romans could treat him and other noncitizens with impunity, without consequences for their behavior: “If a Roman soldier kicked Jesus into a Galilean ravine, it was merely a Jew in a ravine. He could not appeal to Caesar.”71”
― Peter Eisenstadt, Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman