Suetonius

A Roman historian and biographer best known for his Lives of the Twelve Caesars, a detailed account of the first twelve Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Domitian. In his biography of Emperor Claudius, Suetonius records that Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome because of disturbances 'at the instigation of Chrestus' — widely understood as a reference to Christ and the disputes his followers caused in the Roman Jewish community. This passage directly corroborates Acts 18:2, which notes that Aquila and Priscilla had recently come from Italy 'because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome.' Suetonius thus provides independent Roman confirmation of early Christian activity disrupting synagogue life in the imperial capital.