50braZ it started with Ventidius Cumanus, ~~~~~~~~

who was stationed in Jerusalem in 48 CE,
two years after the uprising by Judas's sons had been quelled!

As governor, Cumanus was little more than a thief & a fool!

Among his first acts was the posting of Roman soldiers on the roofs
of the Temple's porticoes, ostensibly to guard against chaos and disorder during the feast of Passover/Pesach?

In the midst of the holy celebrations, one of these soldiers thought it would be very amusing to pull back his garment
and display his bare ass to the assembled congregation below, all the while shouting what Yosephus Flavius, in his decorum,
describes as "such words as you might expect upon such a posture!" The crowd was incensed. A riot broke out in the Temple plaza.

Rather than calming the situation, Cumanus sent a cohort of Roman soldiers up to the Temple Mount to butcher the panicked crowd!

The pilgrims who escaped this slaughter were trapped by the narrow exits leading out of the Temple courtyard! Hundreds were trampled underfoot! Tensions escalated further after one of Cumanus's legionaries grabbed hold of a Torah scroll and tore it to pieces in front of a Jewish assembly! Cumanus had the soldier hastily executed, but it was not enough to quell the growing anger and disaffection among the Jews!

Things came to a head
when a group of Jewish travelers from Galilee were attacked
while passing through Samaria
on their way to Yerushalayim.

When Cumanus dismissed the Jews' appeal for justice,
allegedly because the Samaritans had bribed him, a group of bandits, led by a man named Eleazar son of Dinaeus, took justice
into their own hands and went on a rampage throughout Samaria, killing every Samaritan they came across! This was more
than an ace of bloody vengeance; it was an assertion of freedom by a people fed up with allowing law and order to rest
in the hands of a crooked and fickle administrator from Rome!

This outbreak of violence between the Jews
and the Samaritans was the last straw for the emperor! In 52 CE, Ventidius Cumanus
was also sent into exile and Antonius Felix
was shipped off to Jerusalem
in his stead.
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