Tacitus mentions Jesus's crucifixion.

Date
116 - 116 AD
Type
Book
Source
Tacitus
Ancient
Hearsay
2nd Hand
Translation
Late
Secondary
Reference

Tacitus, Annals, in Complete Works of Tacitus, ed., Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, and Sara Bryant (New York. : Random House, Inc., 1942), Book 15, chapter 44

Scribe/Publisher
Random House
People
Alfred John Church, Tacitus, William Jackson Brodribb, Sara Bryant
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

[T]o get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired.

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