…the romans saw them and it's a whole bunch of texts from the early days of Christianity by roman administrators and commentators. And Suetonius is one of the first people to write about Christianity and he said of it in his report he was the governor of…

…or something and he wrote a report for the emperor and the emperor specifically asked him he said: is it a religion? And Suetonius wrote back and he said: no religions deal with the great questions of man's origin and his destiny. This is a cult of…

…destiny. This is a cult of Christ. And you know of course this is very controversial to say today but I think Suetonius got it pretty close to right. And because western religion, because Christianity has this cultishness within it, it has always then…

…on between 27 and 69? The gospels are not contemporaneous and the mention in 69 is not even a sure thing it's in Suetonius and he says Jews have recently come to Rome agitating in the name of their leader crespus. And that's the reference. And you…

…near 50 years and the whole thing falls silent. And then what we get AD 71. I think the roman. I guess it's in Suetonius. Suetonius who was a roman historian and contemporary. He says in a long rap about something else. He says Jews have recently come…

…50 years and the whole thing falls silent. And then what we get AD 71. I think the roman. I guess it's in Suetonius. Suetonius who was a roman historian and contemporary. He says in a long rap about something else. He says Jews have recently come to…

…This is as close as we get. We don't even know if Crispus is Christ. We just accept that this must be so because Suetonius is telling us that Jews of a religious type have come to Rome and caused this agitation some people have even wanted to that…