Too go further in
Yes Christians were persecuted but only spastically and never in numbers that would wipe them out let alone scare people into not writing about him . And never was it for believing in Jesus it was for civil disobedience. Hell even if we went with the dodgey evidence for Nero killing Christian for the fire had nothing to do with talking about Jesus. But essentially attacking Rome.
Yes Christians were persecuted but only spastically and never in numbers that would wipe them out let alone scare people into not writing about him . And never was it for believing in Jesus it was for civil disobedience. Hell even if we went with the dodgey evidence for Nero killing Christian for the fire had nothing to do with talking about Jesus. But essentially attacking Rome.
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
Inuit Proverb
Inuit Proverb