Wandering Jew myth

The Wandering Jew is a myth that occurred during medieval Christian Europe. The myth is that a Jew became cursed to live forever until the Second Coming after taunting Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion.

Statement by Roman Christian poet Aurelius Prudentius Clemens in his Apotheosis, written around the year 400: “From place to place the homeless Jew wanders in ever-shifting exile, since the time when he was torn from the abode of his fathers and has been suffering the penalty for murder, and having stained his hands with the blood of Christ whom he denied, paying the price of sin.”