How the black man embraced Christianity

[Drich]

that would be called a prophecy moron.

Or a "prophecy" retroactively placed in the mouth of a character to impress hearers/readers who already knew the Temple's fate. 

But let's say, for the sake of argument, that Jesus did say something similar. Is that evidence of divinely inspired prophecy, or is it just possible that a Jew steeped in stories about the Assyrian destruction of Israel and the Babylonian captivity of the Judeans might somehow have figured out that the Jews' continued provocations of the Romans might lead to disaster?

As someone once said, "Glob!"

Oh gob.. they brought glob into it..
So... your saying the destruction of the temple was retroactively placed... in 70 AD, but the book was written in 66 to 70 AD (late date) again early dates put the book being written 25 years before the destruction of the temple. the only reason for the late date is because people like you can't fathom a true prophesy. Here's the problem with that though.. Jesus's anti temple anti religion attitude towards what the temp became is evident through out the gospels. It was also the reason so many turned to christianity after the destruction of jerusalem. Meaning this anti temple sentiment was hard taught and previously ingrained into the people. so when the temple fell as predicted and 'no stone left unturned' ( because the fires burned so hot it melted the gold and silver and it filled the cracks in the floor so rome pried apart the foundation stones to gain the mass amounts of gold down there.) they themselve turned to Christianity.