 they would get the comparatively more humane death of a beheading. And that's why Paul, the Roman citizen, was beheaded. Peter was not. He was a Galilean. They didn't care about him. He was crucified upside down. So Tacitus confirms that Christus, and that's his reference to Jesus, it's a Latinized form of Christ, suffered, he said, the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius, the emperor Tiberius. He was crucified at the hands of Pontius Pilate.