Roma. Later in 23 BCE, Smyrna won permission to build a temple to the emperor Tiberius Claudius Nero. The most famous disciple martyred was Yochanan’s own disciple whom he ordained as Bishop of Smyrna: the elderly Polycarp. This faithful martyr was placed upon a pyre to be burned upon his refusal to acknowledge the Caesar of Rome as Lord. Here is the message from the First and the Last, who died and came alive again:62 We have here an obvious identifying introduction. We know who the First and the