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Cuspius Fadus was the Roman procurator
Procurator

Procurator may refer to:In historical uses:*Promagistrate, an appointed position in the Roman Republic by the Senate, acting in place of a curator...
 of Iudaea Province
Iudaea Province

Iudaea was a Roman province that extended over the former region of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after the tetrarchy of Judea of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE....
 between AD 44
44

Year 44 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
 and AD 46
46

Year 46 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar....
. He is mentioned by Josephus
Josephus

Josephus , also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu and, after he became a Roman citizenship, as Titus Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70....
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"It came to pass, while Cuspius Fadus was procurator of Judea, that a certain charlatan, whose name was Theudas
Theudas

Theudas was a Jewish rebel who probably claimed to be the Messiah. His name, if a Ancient Greek compound, may mean "gift of God", although other scholars believe its etymology is Semitic languages....
, persuaded a great part of the people to take their effects with them, and follow him to the Jordan river
Jordan River

The Jordan River is a river in Southwest Asia which flows into the Dead Sea. It is considered to be one of the world's most sacred rivers. It is 251 kilometers long....
; for he told them he was a prophet, and that he would, by his own command, divide the river, and afford them an easy passage over it.






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Cuspius Fadus was the Roman procurator
Procurator

Procurator may refer to:In historical uses:*Promagistrate, an appointed position in the Roman Republic by the Senate, acting in place of a curator...
 of Iudaea Province
Iudaea Province

Iudaea was a Roman province that extended over the former region of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after the tetrarchy of Judea of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE....
 between AD 44
44

Year 44 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
 and AD 46
46

Year 46 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar....
. He is mentioned by Josephus
Josephus

Josephus , also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu and, after he became a Roman citizenship, as Titus Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70....
.
"It came to pass, while Cuspius Fadus was procurator of Judea, that a certain charlatan, whose name was Theudas
Theudas

Theudas was a Jewish rebel who probably claimed to be the Messiah. His name, if a Ancient Greek compound, may mean "gift of God", although other scholars believe its etymology is Semitic languages....
, persuaded a great part of the people to take their effects with them, and follow him to the Jordan river
Jordan River

The Jordan River is a river in Southwest Asia which flows into the Dead Sea. It is considered to be one of the world's most sacred rivers. It is 251 kilometers long....
; for he told them he was a prophet, and that he would, by his own command, divide the river, and afford them an easy passage over it. Many were deluded by his words. However, Fadus did not permit them to make any advantage of his wild attempt, but sent a troop of horsemen out against them. After falling upon them unexpectedly, they slew many of them, and took many of them alive. They also took Theudas alive, cut off his head, and carried it to Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
". (Jewish Antiquities 20.97-98)"


He was succeeded in 46
46

Year 46 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar....
 by Tiberius Julius Alexander
Tiberius Julius Alexander

Tiberius Julius Alexander was an Equestrian governor and general in the Roman Empire. Born into a wealthy Jewish family of Alexandria but abandoning or neglecting the Judaism, he rose to become Promagistrate of Iudaea Province under Claudius....
.

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