He everywhere encountered black looks and jeers.

When he preached, the Muenzerites would drown his voice by the ringing of bells.

The signs of rebellion greeted him on all sides.
The "Twelve Articles" were constantly thrown at his head.

As the reports of violence towards the property and persons of some of his own noble friends reached him his rage broke all bounds.

He seems, however, to have prudently waited a few days, until the cause of the peasants was obviously hopeless, before publicly taking his stand on the side of the authorities.
On his arrival in Wittenberg, he wrote a second pronouncement on the contemporary events, in which no uncertainty was left as to his attitude.