Still, Gamaliel and his sister, Ima Shalom, chided with the growing local Christian population, even mocking a certain gentile judge who had adjudicated in an inheritance case, in which Ima Shalom had made herself the make-believe claimant in the case. When the judge at first ruled in favor of the woman, he quickly rescinded the verdict in favor of Gamaliel after being given a bribe by Rabban Gamaliel. The story includes a reference to the words of Jesus in Matthew 5:17, with one possible reading of the story indicating that it was Gamaliel making this reference. This episode, as also another described elsewhere, are some of the first encounters with Christianity, during which Rabban Gamliel debated the "min," or philosopher, who maliciously concluded from Hosea 5:6 that God had completely forsaken Israel.