his own followers not to mistake some other figure for (the returned) Jesus himself. What then was the danger? After Easter, within the Christian community, there were those who came “in Jesus’ name” and spoke in the first person as the voice of the risen Lord, using the revelation-formula “I am.”53 Just as there were Jewish prophets who saw the threat to the temple in 66–70 as an indication of the last days and the eschatological intervention of God (cf. Josephus, War 2.17.8 [§ 433–34]), so there