The Persecution of Christians by the Roman Emperor Nero

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The Persecution of Christians by the Roman Emperor Nero

In this section of my coursework I am going to describe the

persecution of Christians by the roman emperor Nero. Nero was emperor

at the time 64AD and was rumoured to have started a fire to burn down

the city of Rome and rebuild it. However when people started to rumour

that it was Nero. He blamed it on the Christians. He decided to blame

the Christians because they were easy to blame as they did not know

much about the Christians and people often fear and hate people they

do not know much about. Also the Romans didn’t understand why

Christians drank wine and ate bread in rituals. Another reason is that

Christians were rumoured to be cannibals and ate babies!

Nero killed and tortured Christians in many horrible ways. Tacitus

said, “Mockery of every sort was added to their death” this suggests

to me that Christians were killed uncivilised such as pouring tar and

pitch over them and using them as “living torches” to light his

chariot races. Also they were sewn into animal skins and killed by

dogs or even nailed to the cross like Jesus in fact when Peter was put

to death he insisted he would be crucified upside as he felt he wasn’t

worthy to die like Jesus. Overall Nero prosecuted and treated

Christians very badly just to save his reputation as an emperor.

In this section of my coursework I am going to explain why some people

think Marks Gospel was written for non- – Jews facing persecution.

Firstly when he writes anything in Amaraic, this is the Jewish lanuage

at the time of Jesus he translates it into Greek his suggests that is

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