I asked my professor for suggestions of something easy to translate from Latin, and she told me the Gospel of John. One of difficulties early Christianity faced is its sacred text was not as impressive compared to the polytheistic religion. If you compare this—

The Levites asked him, "Who are you?"
And he confessed and did not deny. And he confessed, "I am not Christ."
And they asked him, "Then what? Are you Elijah?"
He said no.
"Are you a prophet?"
He responded no.^*

—with the melodic lines of Homer, Ovid, or Vigil, it's rather pathetic. People would sneer at the simple syntax and poor rhetoric, but that was the Bible's appeal: It used the common speech to connect with the masses. Still, I'll admit if I were an English teacher I'd give the writer of John a poor grade for repetition, bland writing style, and inability to construct scenes properly. It's literally the bare minimum to get the point across.

Which makes this line for me all the more hilarious. The disciples are starting to gather around Jesus. After meeting him, Philip runs to his buddy Nathaniel:

Philip found Nathaniel and said to him, "We found Jesus, the son of Joseph of Nazareth, whom Moses and the prophets wrote about in the law."
And Nathaniel said to him, "Can anything good be from Nazareth?"
Philip said to him, "Come and see."^**

Okay, I need to first emphasize how jarring John is. He has such difficulty making transitions from point to point. He'll be talking about one thing and with little segue move onto the next. It's really minimalist. Even though he skips things all the time, he somehow thinks insulting Nazareth is important enough to include in this book. Not how that interview with the Levites ended, not how Jesus heard about John the Baptist, not even the birth story mentioned in Luke and Matthew. John doesn't mention any of that. But having someone crack the line, "Is there anything good at all in Nazareth? Like, seriously. I doubt this guy is anything useful because he came from Nazareth." That got included for posterity.

^* John 1:19-21
^** John 1:45-46