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...esarea (Acts 25:12-27). He died at Rome A.D. 100, in the third year of the emperor Trajan.

...was "deputy", i.e., proconsul, as in Revised Version, of Achaia, under the emperor Claudius, when Paul visited Corinth (Acts 18:12). The word used here by Luk

...t victims to the ferocity of one man." Another Roman historian, Suetonius (Nero, xvi.), says of him: "He likewise inflicted punishments on the Christians, Nero was the emperor before whom Paul was brought on his first imprisonment at Rome, and the apo

* Significant Roman Emperors - [[Nero]], [[Domitian]], [[Trajan]], [[Decius]], [[Gallenius]] | ...ered treasonous and punishable by execution. There were persecutions under Nero, Domitian, Trajan and the other Antonines, Maximinus Thrax, Decius, Valeria

...ered treasonous and punishable by execution. There were persecutions under Nero, Domitian, Trajan and the other Antonines, Maximinus Thrax, Decius, Valeria

...as in Spain when he heard of the awful martyrdom of the Roman church under Nero in A.D. 64. ...orches during the night. For the convenience of this tragic spectacle, the Emperor lent his own gardens. At length the cruelty of these proceedings filled eve

...ered treasonous and punishable by execution. There were persecutions under Nero, Domitian, Trajan and the other Antonines, Maximinus Thrax, Decius, Valeria ...lamation was made by the Western emperor [[Constantine I]] and the Eastern emperor Licinius. The proclamation - called the [[edict of Milan]] - established re

...this crisis to claim the privilege of a Roman citizen, he appealed to the emperor (Acts 25:11). Such an appeal could not be disregarded, and Paul was at once ...ustration of the irony of human life than this scene of Paul at the bar of Nero. On the judgment-seat, clad in the imperial purple, sat a man who, in a bad

The [[Acts of Peter]] record a legend in which Peter flees Rome when Nero began his persecution in AD 64. The legend says that Jesus appeared to him ...r having been martyred in Rome at some point during the reign of [[Emperor Nero]] (Cullmann). However, even with this evidence the means of Peter's death c

Constantine, the first professed Christian Emperor of Rome, b. 272 A. D. —d. 337, 790. Nero, Rome’s most wicked and cruel Emperor, b. 37—d. 68 A. D. by his own hand, 310ff, 322ff, 777.