And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Jews. This was the name the first Christians went by among the pagans. Indeed our Saviour's being born of that nation, and his disciples adoring the same God, and following the same morality and Scriptures as the Jews, were sufficient reasons to make them confounded. When Suetonius relates that Claudius banished the Jews from Rome, he means the Christians. (Calmet)
