What were Jesus and early Christians like?

[Mudhammam]

@Nestor: One wall doth not a temple make. The cultic center of Judaism was destroyed and the relatively few survivors of the siege of Jerusalem were rounded up and exiled, scattered throughout the Diaspora. For all practical purposes, not one stone was left standing. Jesus' 'prophecy' is just a piece of pious bullshit -- a bit of post-hoc poetic license meant to impress believers with their God-man's prescience.

Maybe, maybe not. I don't think it's conclusive and nothing requires Mark's prediction to be unusual if everyone under the sun could see the Jews starting a war they couldn't win. We all know how Jewish prophets love to spell their own cities' utter and divine destruction when the people reject them. I think Josephus even includes an antidote about a different weeping Jesus who calls upon Jerusalem to repent or be destroyed before the sacking of the city, so these apocalyptic type moralists were probably not all that uncommon.