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Josephus also writes about an occasion that was instigated by the Jews when they went in large numbers to a Greek meeting in the amphitheatre. The Greeks responded as if they were spies and created a scene and grabbed three Jews to burn them alive, however the whole community of Jews rose up and started a riot, pelting the Greeks with rocks and then getting torches they went to the amphitheatre threatening to burn it down with all the Greeks in it. Tiberius the Roman governor of the city had to get involved and quell the Jews anger.
Around A.D 115-117, during the reign of Trajan the Jews rebelled and destroyed large amounts of area around Egypt, Cyrene and Cyprus. Eusebius writes that the Jews rushed into a faction fight against their Greek neighbors as if seized by some terrible spirit of revolt. Then in the next year it ended up being a full scale war which resulted in Lupus the governor of Egypt fleeing to Alexandria and killing all the Jews of the city. During this time the Jews in the region of Cyrene were also revolting killing both Romans and Greeks and in Cyprus the Jews killed two hundred and forty thousand people and because of this no Jew was allowed to even go to the island of Cyprus and if they did they were to be put to death.
At one stage the Romans attempted to erect standards and other statues in the Jewish temple and surrounding Jerusalem, this was a contravention of Jewish law and thus a small riot broke out. Jews from all around the Roman empire would send money to Jerusalem which was called the temple tax, this tax was to be used for the upkeep of the temple, however when the temple was destroyed by the Romans in A.D 70, the Romans then demanded the tax to paid to the Roman state to allow them to