7.] [Footnote 29: The price of wheat (probably of the modius,) was reduced as low as terni Nummi; which would be equivalent to about fifteen shillings the English quarter.] [Footnote 30: We may observe, that the rumor is mentioned by Tacitus with a very becoming distrust and hesitation, whilst it is greedily transcribed by Suetonius, and solemnly confirmed by Dion.] [Footnote 31: This testimony is alone sufficient to expose the anachronism of the Jews, who place the birth of Christ near a century sooner.

(Basnage, Histoire des Juifs, l.v.c.14, 15.) We may learn from Josephus, (Antiquitat.xviii.

3,) that the procuratorship of Pilate corresponded with the last ten years of Tiberius, A.D.

27--37.

As to the particular time of the death of Christ, a very early tradition fixed it to the 25th of March, A.D.29, under the consulship of the two Gemini.