Dialogue with Trypho 17.1

“For the other nations are not so guilty of this injustice toward us and toward Christ as you are, who are the cause of their evil prejudice against the Righteous One and against us who are from him. For after you had crucified that only blameless and righteous man, through whose stripes healing comes to those who approach the Father through him, when you knew that he had risen from the dead and ascended into heaven, as the prophecies foretold would happen, not only did you not repent of the evil you had done, but you then chose picked men from Jerusalem and sent them out into all the land, saying that a godless sect of Christians had appeared, and reciting the things that all who do not know us say against us; so that you are the cause of injustice not only to yourselves, but to all other men without exception.