that Suetonius would not misconstrue “Christus” as “Chrestus” because Chrestus was a common name in Rome. Moreover, in Nero 16.2 Suetonius spells the closely related word Christiani correctly, and so he must have known that its founder was Christus, not Chrestus. Benko concludes that this Chrestus was a Jewish radical, a member of a Zealot-like group that wanted to induce the coming of God’s kingdom by violence. When Chrestus incited Roman Jews to riot over the abolition of the Jewish client kingdom