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  1     His, 1Mac    3:   16(2) |           10-11), and in 66 A.D. a Roman force under Cestius was
  2     His, 1Mac    8:    1(2) |                1] The image of the Roman Republic greatly impressed
  3     His, 1Mac    8:    1(2) |           Macc 8:1-16), because of Roman success in war (1 Macc 8:
  4     His, 1Mac    8:    1(2) |             2 Macc 11:34. With the Roman control of Palestine in
  5     His, 1Mac    8:    9(7) |        time. It was crushed by the Roman consul Lucius Mummius and
  6     His, 1Mac    8:   16(8) |           to one man: actually the Roman Republic always had two
  7     His, 1Mac    8:   22(9) |          on bronze and kept in the Roman Capitol, with only a copy
  8   WisdB,  Pro  Int          |            of "Wisdom," and in the Roman Missal it was referred to
  9  ProphB,  Isa    6:    1(1) |       These words are found in the Roman liturgy just before the
 10  ProphB,  Isa    6:    7(5) |           as God's prophet. In the Roman liturgy, the celebrant at
 11  ProphB,  Dan    7:    1(1) |         where it is applied to the Roman empire, the persecutor of
 12   REPre                     |            New American Bible is a Roman Catholic translation. This
 13    Gosp,  Mat  Int          |        Antioch, the capital of the Roman province of Syria. That
 14    Gosp,  Mat    4:   24(12)|                     24] Syria: the Roman province to which Palestine
 15    Gosp,  Mat    5:   41(26)|                                41] Roman garrisons in Palestine had
 16    Gosp,  Mat   10:   38(15)|         for offenders who were not Roman citizens.~
 17    Gosp,  Mat   19:    9(7) |            unlike the places where Roman and Greek law prevailed,
 18    Gosp,  Mat   22:   15(9) |         him into conflict with the Roman authorities.~
 19    Gosp,  Mat   22:   19    |           Then they handed him the Roman coin. ~
 20    Gosp,  Mat   22:   19(12)|            19] They handed him the Roman coin: their readiness in
 21    Gosp,  Mat   22:   19(12)|        financial advantages of the Roman administration in Palestine.~
 22    Gosp,  Mat   27:    1(1) |           Matthew's account of the Roman trial before Pilate is introduced
 23    Gosp,  Mat   27:   11(6) |         would be of concern to the Roman governor. You say so: see
 24    Gosp,  Mat   27:   22(12)|        peculiarly horrible form of Roman capital punishment. The
 25    Gosp,  Mat   27:   27(15)|   praetorium: the residence of the Roman governor. His usual place
 26    Gosp,  Mat   27:   32(19)|       named Simon: Cyrenaica was a Roman province on the north coast
 27    Gosp,  Mat   27:   65(38)|       granted the petitioners some Roman soldiers as guards, which
 28    Gosp,  Mar   13:    3(2) |         Daniel 9:27), i.e., of the Roman power profaning the temple.
 29    Gosp,  Luk  Int          |            5; 3:1-2; Acts 4:6) and Roman (Luke 2:1-2; 3:1; Acts 11:
 30    Gosp,  Luk  Int          |  legitimate form of worship in the Roman world, a religion that is
 31    Gosp,  Luk  Int          |         this end, Luke depicts the Roman governor Pilate declaring
 32    Gosp,  Luk    1:    1(1) |          contemporaneous Greek and Roman literature. Luke is not
 33    Gosp,  Luk    1:    5(3) |          in the light of events of Roman history. Herod the Great,
 34    Gosp,  Luk    1:    5(3) |    declared "King of Judea" by the Roman Senate in 40 B.C., but became
 35    Gosp,  Luk    2:    1(1) |         universal registrations of Roman citizens are attested in
 36    Gosp,  Luk    2:    1(1) |     provinces of those who are not Roman citizens are also attested,
 37    Gosp,  Luk    2:    1(1) |            universal census of the Roman world under Caesar Augustus
 38    Gosp,  Luk    2:    1(1) |           this birth for the whole Roman world: through this child
 39    Gosp,  Luk    2:    1(2) |         Augustus: the reign of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus
 40    Gosp,  Luk    2:    1(2) |       Augustus was regarded in the Roman Empire as "savior" and "
 41    Gosp,  Luk    2:    1(2) |            Augusta, throughout the Roman world during his long reign.
 42    Gosp,  Luk    2:    1(2) |          world: that is, the whole Roman world: Rome, Italy, and
 43    Gosp,  Luk    2:    1(2) |        world: Rome, Italy, and the Roman provinces. ~
 44    Gosp,  Luk    7:    1(2) |         conversion by Peter of the Roman centurion Cornelius who
 45    Gosp,  Luk    8:   30(10)|     transliterated into Greek. The Roman legion at this period consisted
 46    Gosp,  Luk   12:    6(4) |            6] Two small coins: the Roman copper coin, the assarion (
 47    Gosp,  Luk   19:   39(8) |        Luke, was given so that the Roman authorities would not interpret
 48    Gosp,  Luk   20:   20(4) |          i.e., Pontius Pilate, the Roman administrator responsible
 49    Gosp,  Luk   20:   22(5) |           70) that resulted in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem
 50    Gosp,  Luk   20:   24(6) |                    24] Denarius: a Roman silver coin (see the note
 51    Gosp,  Luk   23:    1(1) |      innocence of Jesus before the Roman authorities is also characteristic
 52    Gosp,  Luk   23:    1(1) |          who force the hand of the Roman authorities (Luke 23:1-2, 5,
 53    Gosp,  Joh    1:   39(28)|         hour, from sunrise, in the Roman calculation of time. Some
 54    Gosp,  Joh    6:    7(5) |            literally, "denarii"; a Roman denarius is a day's wage
 55    Gosp,  Joh   18:    3(3) |        soldiers: seems to refer to Roman troops, either the full
 56    Gosp,  Joh   18:    3(3) |           case, John is hinting at Roman collusion in the action
 57    Gosp,  Joh   18:   27(12)|             Cockcrow was the third Roman division of the night, lasting
 58    Gosp,  Joh   18:   28(13)|         the early hour," or fourth Roman division of the night, 3
 59    Gosp,  Joh   19:   12(3) |            12] Friend of Caesar: a Roman honorific title bestowed
 60    Gosp,  Joh   19:   16(6) |            John later mentions the Roman soldiers (John 19:23), and
 61    Gosp,  Act  Int          |           of Jesus to Paul's first Roman imprisonment, the point
 62    Gosp,  Act  Int          |          among the Gentiles of the Roman empire, Luke perceives the
 63    Gosp,  Act  Int          |           of Paul's defense before Roman authorities is to show that
 64    Gosp,  Act  Int          |      disturber of the peace of the Roman Empire (Acts 24:5, 12-13;
 65    Gosp,  Act  Int          |    Moreover, when he stands before Roman authorities, he is declared
 66    Gosp,  Act    4:   12(3) |                         12] In the Roman world of Luke's day, salvation
 67    Gosp,  Act   16:   12    |        district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We spent some time
 68    Gosp,  Act   16:   20(7) |           highest officials of the Roman colony of Philippi.~
 69    Gosp,  Act   16:   37    |       publicly, even though we are Roman citizens and have not been
 70    Gosp,  Act   16:   37(9) |                         37] Paul's Roman citizenship granted him
 71    Gosp,  Act   16:   37(9) |        regard to criminal process. Roman law forbade under severe
 72    Gosp,  Act   16:   37(9) |      severe penalty the beating of Roman citizens (see also Acts
 73    Gosp,  Act   16:   38    |          they heard that they were Roman citizens. ~
 74    Gosp,  Act   18:    2(1) |         from Rome ca. A.D. 40. The Roman historian Suetonius gives
 75    Gosp,  Act   18:   13(6) |           a problem of Jewish, not Roman, law.~
 76    Gosp,  Act   19:   31(3) |         influence who promoted the Roman imperial cult and who may
 77    Gosp,  Act   19:   31(3) |            league of cities in the Roman province of Asia.~
 78    Gosp,  Act   21:   31(11)|        cohort." At this period the Roman cohort commander usually
 79    Gosp,  Act   21:   38(13)|      commotion was put down by the Roman authorities and the Egyptian
 80    Gosp,  Act   22:   25    |          to scourge a man who is a Roman citizen and has not been
 81    Gosp,  Act   22:   25(5) |          to scourge a man who is a Roman citizen and has not been
 82    Gosp,  Act   22:   26    |         going to do? This man is a Roman citizen." ~
 83    Gosp,  Act   22:   27    |           him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he answered. ~
 84    Gosp,  Act   22:   29    |          he realized that he was a Roman citizen and that he had
 85    Gosp,  Act   23:   26(7) |            the fact that Paul is a Roman citizen and asserts the
 86    Gosp,  Act   23:   26(7) |         Paul's case because of his Roman citizenship, but this is
 87    Gosp,  Act   23:   27    |            I learned that he was a Roman citizen. ~
 88    Gosp,  Act   25:    9(2) |           Paul uses his right as a Roman citizen to appeal his case
 89    Gosp,  Act   25:    9(2) |         broke the deadlock between Roman protective custody of Paul
 90    Gosp,  Act   25:   16    |      answered them that it was not Roman practice to hand over an
 91    Gosp,  Act   27:    1(2) |     custodians bear so important a Roman name. ~
 92    Gosp,  Act   28:   17(4) |        case against him before the Roman jurisdiction. He is informed
 93   NTLet,  Rom  Int          |           of evangelization in the Roman world. Yet he recognized
 94   NTLet,  Rom  Int          |           how, we do not know. The Roman historian Suetonius mentions
 95   NTLet,  Rom  Int          |           much in the minds of the Roman Christians. Each of these
 96   NTLet,  Rom    1:   14(9) |          whose speech was foreign. Roman citizens would scarcely
 97   NTLet,  Rom   13:    1(1) |          How are they to relate to Roman authority? The problem was
 98   NTLet,  Rom   15:   19(7) |                     19] Illyricum: Roman province northwest of Greece
 99   NTLet,  Rom   15:   21(9) |        with the gospel through the Roman empire.~
100   NTLet,  Rom   15:   26(11)|                    26] Achaia: the Roman province of southern Greece.~
101   NTLet, 1Cor    6:    1(1) |     another before pagan judges in Roman courts. A barrage of rhetorical
102   NTLet, 2Cor    1:    8(5) |                         8] Asia: a Roman province in western Asia
103   NTLet, 2Cor    2:   13(4) |                   13] Macedonia: a Roman province in northern Greece.~
104   NTLet,  Gal  Int          |          this area was part of the Roman province of Galatia, and
105   NTLet,  Gal    1:    2(3) |        Turkey more likely than the Roman province of Galatia; see
106   NTLet,  Gal    6:   12(8) |        status as a religion in the Roman empire, circumcised Christians
107   NTLet,  Eph    6:   10(1) |         the dress and equipment of Roman soldiers. He observes, however,
108   NTLet,  Phi  Int          |          of some importance in the Roman province of Macedonia. Lying
109   NTLet,  Phi  Int          |             it was in Paul's day a Roman town (Acts 16:21), with
110   NTLet,  Phi  Int          |           s City." The area became Roman in the second century B.C.
111   NTLet,  Phi  Int          |    Augustus) later made Philippi a Roman colony and settled many
112   NTLet,  Phi  Int          |       settled many veterans of the Roman armies there.~Paul, according
113   NTLet,  Phi    1:   13(7) |            official residence in a Roman province (cf Mark 15:16;
114   NTLet,  Phi    1:   27(12)| destruction of such people as defy Roman authority (though in reality,
115   NTLet,  Phi    4:    8(6) |        language employs terms from Roman Stoic thought.~
116   NTLet,  Col  Int          |        Acts 28:16-28), or a second Roman imprisonment has been claimed
117   NTLet,  Col    2:   15(7) |         spectacle and triumph of a Roman emperor's victory parade,
118   NTLet, 2The    2:    4(4) |         temple and possibly of the Roman emperor Caligula to do a
119   NTLet, 2The    2:    6(5) |            has been applied to the Roman empire and 2 Thes 2:7 to
120   NTLet, 2The    2:    6(5) |       empire and 2 Thes 2:7 to the Roman emperor (in Paul's day,
121   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |       between the end of his first Roman imprisonment (Acts 28:16)
122   NTLet, 2Tim    1:   16(11)|           to Paul during his first Roman imprisonment (A.D. 61-63).~
123   CathL,  Jam    5:   15(7) |           forgiveness of sins. The Roman Catholic Church (Council
124   CathL,  Rev  Int          |            the early church by the Roman authorities; the harlot
125   CathL,  Rev  Int          |          rocky island of Patmos, a Roman penal colony. Although he
126   CathL,  Rev    1:    4(4) |           Asia: Asia refers to the Roman province of that name in
127   CathL,  Rev    2:    1(3) |          it was the capital of the Roman province of Asia and the
128   CathL,  Rev    6:    2(3) |          the eastern border of the Roman empire. Expert in the use
129   CathL,  Rev    6:    6(6) |         literally, "a denarius," a Roman silver coin that constitutes
130   CathL,  Rev    6:   15(14)|           as the equivalent of the Roman tribunus militum. The listing
131   CathL,  Rev   11:    7(6) |                from the abyss: the Roman emperor Nero, who symbolizes
132   CathL,  Rev   12:    1(1) |           A beast, symbolizing the Roman empire, then becomes the
133   CathL,  Rev   13:    1(1) |      Daniel 7:2-28, symbolizes the Roman empire; the seven heads
134   CathL,  Rev   17:    3(4) |       divine titles assumed by the Roman emperors; see the note on
135   CathL,  Rev   17:   10(9) |          as to the identity of the Roman emperors alluded to here.