In the times of revived religious yearning which also invaded the philosophical systems and affected the adherents of Platonism, a new religion arose in Palestine whence it spread not only among the Jews but also through the Graeco-Roman world. The founder of this religion, Jesus Christ, did not encounter antique culture, he knew only the might of the Roman state when its representative, Pontius Pilatus, made him die. The helplessness of the antique philosophy of those times was revealed in Pilatus' question to Jesus "what is truth?", which his followers answered with firm faith by his words worthy of a leader: "I am the path and truth and life". The first contacts of Jesus' teaching with the components of Greek culture began with the activities of the apostle Paul, the most eminent spirit of hellenized Jewry.