Now all who are of your race knew these actions of Jonah, and Christ cried aloud among you that He would give you the sign of Jonah, urging that even after His resurrection from the dead you should repent of your evil deeds, and lament before God like the Ninevites, in order that both your nation and your city should not be overthrown and taken, as it has been overthrown.
Yet not only did you not repent, when you learned that He had risen from the dead, but, as I said before, you appointed chosen men and sent them into all the civilized world, proclaiming that ‘a certain godless and lawless sect has been raised by one Jesus of Galilee, a deceiver, whom we crucified, but His disciples stole Him by night from the tomb, where He had been laid after being unnailed from the cross, and they deceive men, saying that He is risen from the dead and has ascended into heaven.’ And you accuse Him of having taught those godless, lawless, and unholy things, which, as you tell every race of men, you lay to the charge of them that acknowledge Him as Christ and Teacher and Son of God.
In addition to all this, although your city has been taken, and your land laid waste, you do not repent, but dare even to curse Him and all them that believe on Him. And, as for us, we do not hate you, nor them that because of you accept such suspicions of us, but we pray that even now you may repent and find mercy from God the Father of the universe, who is tender-hearted and full of compassion.