Some apocryphal gospels testify to the reverence Jewish followers of Jesus (like the Ebionites) had for James.
Unwilling to give up their messianic expectations, a minority of Zvi's Jewish followers converted to Islam along with him.
Thousands of his European Jewish followers became crypto-Jews, called dönme living in Turkey to this day.
John himself proclaims a more radical vision-one that finally alienates him from other Jews, and even from other Jewish followers of Jesus.
Nonetheless, he had a significant impact on subsequent Jewish philosophical followers of the Kalām, such as Saʿadya Gaon.
For many decades afterwards his Jewish followers considered themselves Messianic Jews and continued to go to the synagogues in the Diaspora.
But Spinoza had no Jewish followers in his lifetime, even though it appeared that many Jews were ready for fundamental change.
The villains at whom the audience's outrage is directed are the actors playing bloodthirsty rabbis and their rabid Jewish followers.
His Jewish followers were known as Sabbateans.