 At this time, Jews were the strongest persecutors of Christians. Now, it changed over the next couple of decades. Things would shift, and the Roman Empire really increased its persecution against both Jews and Christians. But at this time in the mid-'50s, Jews in Jerusalem were really the biggest persecutors of Christians. Jerusalem was the epicenter of this. And so that was probably the biggest cause for their poverty there. And of course, it can be a combination of these things or other things.