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The Acts of the Apostles depicts ... 20:19, 23:12-14: Jews plot to kill Paul. 12:1-5: King Herod ... it is possible that Christians were being executed in various ...
Some were translated into Sogdian and discovered at Turpan. [69] Under Yazdegerd I (r. 399–420) there were occasional persecutions, including an instance of persecution in reprisal for the burning of a Zoroastrian fire temple by a Christian priest, and further persecutions occurred in the reign of Bahram V (r. 420–438). [69] Under Yazdegerd ...
1.1 According to the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles. ... King Edward the ... (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416) - executed for heresy by the Roman Catholic ...
Modern historians estimate that during this period, known as the Diocletianic or Great Persecution and extending several years beyond the reign of Diocletian, as many as 3,000−3,500 Christians were executed under the authority of Imperial edicts. [1]
The stoning to death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, in a painting by the 16th-century Spanish artist Juan Correa de Vivar. In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. [1]
A. N. Sherwin-White records that serious discussion of the reasons for Roman persecution of Christians began in 1890 when it produced "20 years of controversy" and three main opinions: first, there was the theory held by most French and Belgian scholars that "there was a general enactment, precisely formulated and valid for the whole empire, which forbade the practice of the Christian religion.
Sometime after the events in the previous chapter, the apostles in Jerusalem are harassed by a new persecution (12:1) by a "Herod", not Herod Antipas, who was involved in the trial of Jesus (Luke 23:6–12; Acts 4:27) but Agrippa I, a grandson of Herod the Great, resulting in the killing of James the son of Zebedee and the imprisonment of Simon Peter.
Christians were obstinate in their non-compliance. Church leaders, like Fabian, bishop of Rome, and Babylas, bishop of Antioch, were arrested, tried and executed, [30] as were certain members of the Christian laity, like Pionius of Smyrna. [31] [notes 3] Origen was tortured during the persecution and died about a year after from the resulting ...