Quote:albeit smaller than what thousands of his contempoaries whom the Romans crucified
Later xtian propaganda. It appears, despite later forgeries, that the Romans took no notice of them until the mid-3'd century when they finally became numerous enough to notice. It was also a bad time for the Roman empire, with a string of serious defeats in the East, and xtians gloating about the coming of a 'new kingdom' would have been seen as disloyalty.
