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Who was Nero?



    
    

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
Born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in December of AD 37, Nero became the fifth emperor of Rome. Nero, along with Rome's first four emperors-Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius-made up what is ...

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My picture Jack Gutknecht Supporter ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Although Nero is not mentioned by name in the Bible, he’s the emperor to whom Paul appealed for trial in the Roman Empire’s supreme court: as Michael said, Acts 25:10-11:

Contemporary English Version:
10 Paul replied, “I am on trial in the Emperor’s court, and that’s where I should be tried. You know very well that I have not done anything to harm the Jewish nation. 11 If I had done something deserving death, I would not ask to escape the death penalty. But I am not guilty of any of these crimes, and no one has the right to hand me over to these people. I now ask to be tried by the Emperor himself.”

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