What were Jesus and early Christians like?

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Disclaimer that I'm not a professor of ancient history. That said, Aratas had to know that Rome would retaliate for his attack on Antipas if he was thinking logically. It seems more likely to me that his decision to attack Antipas must have been an ill-thought out impulse, possibly brought on by the outrage of his daughter being jilted and humiliated in that manner. Taking several years to cool off and think about it makes the scenario more unlikely, not less.

I'm not a history expert either, but I was imagining something more Machiavellian on both sides. It's hard to imagine why Nabatea would attack a Roman client state. They got away with it too. Tiberius died and Caligula apparently forgave the Nabateans? It sounds like a Luciferian conspiracy to me.