![]() Growing up in Rome, he probably knew of the new "sect" among the Jews that had migrated from Jerusalem, Judea, about the time of his birth. He was the fifth and last emperor of the dynasty that had begun with Augustus in 27 BC.īorn Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, in AD 37, to Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina, sister to Emperor Caligula. He is thought to have had both Paul and Peter killed in Rome. ![]() He began to rule in AD 54, and ruled until AD 68. Though not mentioned by name in the Bible, secular records (and perhaps the book of the Revelation) identify him as a ruthless man who began persecuting Christians. Nero (AD 37-68) was the Roman emperor to whom Paul appealed upon return to Jerusalem after his third missionary journey.
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