To give background to whom these Christians were He wrote: 'Christus, the founder of the name Christian, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate.'
Malunghana ni rito "Vukreste" Tacitus u tsarile: "Kreste, loyi vito ra vona ri humaka eka yena, u dlayiwile hi nkarhi wa ku fuma ka Tiberiyo emavokweni ya yin'wana ya tindhuna-nkulu ta hina, ku nga Pontiyo Pilato."