to that refuse heap where the Sepulchre and Calvary were located, and there they would offer their prayers; but the Greeks stopped them from doing so. The Greeks then built on that dump a temple dedicated to Venus, and after that no Christian was able to come near the place.
He said: King Ilya subsequently died, and Antoninus Caesar ruled after him in Rome for 22 years.
He said: In the eleventh year of his reign he appointed Judah as bishop of Jerusalem; he served for two years and then died.
He said: From James, the first bishop of Jerusalem, up to this Judah, every bishop appointed over Jerusalem had been circumcised.
He also related that another Caesar named Marcus ruled next for 19 years, that he stirred up grievous persecution and deep sorrow against the Christians, and that many martyrs were put to death in his time.