Because the Christians had been so cruelly enslaved and subjected to such severe slaughter, the Romans felt compassion for them. The king’s ministers bore witness before him that the Christians did possess a revealed law and a religion, and that it was therefore unlawful to enslave them; so he put an end to their persecution.
He said: During this emperor’s reign, John wrote his Gospel in Greek on an island called Timra, a part of Roman territory near Athens, at the time of a great Roman philosopher named Momodis.
He said: In that same era the Jews returned to Jerusalem. When their numbers swelled and the city filled with them, they resolved to crown one of their own as king. News of this reached Tiberius Caesar, who dispatched one of his commanders at the head of a mighty army to Jerusalem and put to death an uncountable multitude of Jews.