"As the existence of the Christians became more widely known, it became increasingly clear that they were (a) antisocial, in that they did not participate in the normal social life of their communities; (b) sacrilegious, in that they refused to worship the gods; and (c) dangerous, in that the gods did not take kindly to communities that harbored those who failed to offer them cult.Bart D. Ehrman, A Brief Introduction to the New Testament (Oxford University Press 2004 ISBN978-0-19-536934-2), pp. 313–314
G.W. Bowersock, Martyrdom and RomeArquivado em 2016-01-20 no Wayback Machine (Cambridge University Press 2002 ISBN978-0-521-53049-1), pp. 1–4; Eusebius describes three men in Caeserea who watched other Christians "winning the crown of martyrdom" and provoked the governor to attain the same end, he records a further six men in the same area demanding to be killed in the arena. Fox, 1987, p. 442–443
G.W. Bowersock, Martyrdom and RomeArquivado em 2016-01-20 no Wayback Machine (Cambridge University Press 2002 ISBN978-0-521-53049-1), pp. 1–4; Eusebius describes three men in Caeserea who watched other Christians "winning the crown of martyrdom" and provoked the governor to attain the same end, he records a further six men in the same area demanding to be killed in the arena. Fox, 1987, p. 442–443
