He said:
Mark the Evangelist resided in Alexandria and in Barqa, summoning people to faith, and he remained there for seven years.
In the first year of Nero Caesar’s reign, Mark was killed in Alexandria and his body was burned. The narrator then enumerates a number of subsequent Caesars, noting that Titus laid waste to Jerusalem seventy years after the Messiah. After besieging the city, a devastating famine gripped its inhabitants, and every man and woman within it was killed; they even ripped open the bellies of pregnant women and dashed their infants against the rocks. He leveled the city and the Temple, set them ablaze, and when the dead were counted under his command they numbered three million.
The account goes on to mention other Caesars, including one who ruled for fifteen years, a ruler named Domitian. He was exceedingly harsh toward the Jews, and when he heard that the Christians were proclaiming the Messiah to be their King and that His kingdom is everlasting, he flew into a furious rage and ordered the Christians to be put to death, decreeing that no Christian should remain within his realm.