 He must be regarded as a popular leader who took up His position against Jewry [...] and it's certain that Jesus was not a Jew.The Jews, by the way, regarded Him as the son of a whore—of a whore and a Roman soldier.The decisive falsification of Jesus's doctrine was the work of St. Paul [...] Paul of Tarsus (his name was Saul, before the road to Damascus) was one of those who persecuted Jesus most savagely.