Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went aboard, and put out to sea.

There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, “These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,

For we have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.