Yet martyrdom alone could not have stopped the massed power of the Seleucids and Hellenizers. In Chasidic reasoning, apocalypse was the only hope left. Indeed, had the Chasidim survived the persecution and won out within the Jewish community, the religion would have been decisively turned onto a path of pacifism, apocalyptic expectation, and denigr

The Jewish Revolt of 66 AD effectively ended the Jerusalem church of James, while the Christianity of Paul, who was probably dead or dying in a cell in Rome at the time, would continue to grow.