Community Bible Study -- Acts Photos for Lesson 24 Click Here for Lesson 24 Presentation Text . . . Click Here to return to Acts Home Page

Rogues' Gallery (Left to Right): Nero, who released Paul, then persecuted Christians and killed James, Peter, and Paul after Rome burned in 64 AD; Vespasian, the general called to put down the Jewish Revolt in 66 AD and who succeeded Nero as Caesar; Titus, Vespasian's son, who destroyed Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD; Judea Capta coin issued after the destruction of Jerusalem, showing a Roman soldier with his foot on the head of a Jew, while a Jewish woman cries under a palm tree.

Left: Ossuary (bone burial box) claimed to have been used for James, the brother of Jesus, but probably a forgery (Biblical Archaeology Review photo). Right: Footprints believed to be left by Jesus, when he met Peter at the Quo Vadis Church outside of Rome.

Left: Middle-Ages artwork of Peter's crucifixion upside down in Rome. Center: St. Paul's-Outside-the-Wall church in Rome, traditional site where Paul was beheaded with a sword. (Right): Statue of Paul with a sword at St. Paul's-Outside-the-Wall.

Above Left: Recently excavated stones thrown down from the temple by Titus' troops -- found just as they were when the temple was destroyed in 70 AD. Above Right: Arch of Titus in Rome, commemorating Titus' destruction of Jerusalem. Left: Interior of Arch of Titus, showing Roman soldiers carrying away loot from the temple, with Jewish prisoners in front of them.