Then Tacitus said: “Christus, the founder of the name [Christian], had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilatus. ” ​ — Annals, XV, 44.
पण निरोने ती अफवा खोटी ठरवण्यासाठी ख्रिस्ती लोकांवर दोष लावला.