complained that Paul and Silas were saying that there was ‘another king, Jesus’, alongside or taking priority over the Roman emperor.21 Consistent with their commitment to a superior king, these Christians would not participate in the state religion, worshipping the emperor and the gods. Rather, they were members of a private sect, a superstitio. The people of the Graeco-Roman east were pleased to worship the Roman Caesar as a ‘saviour’ and ‘benefactor’.22 But not these Christians. In Roman eyes,
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