Jesus ben Ananias

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Jesus, the son of Ananias, was a plebeian and a husbandman, who, four years before the Jewish war against Rome begun in 66 CE, went around Jerusalem prophesying the city's destruction. The Jewish leaders of Jerusalem turned him over to the Romans, who tortured him. The procurator Albinus took him to be a madman and released him. He continued his prophesy for more than seven years until he was killed by a stone from a catapult during the Roman siege of Jerusalem during the war.

(Summarized from Book 6, Chapter 5, Section 3 of the historian Flavius Josephus' The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem)