DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Pliny the Younger, governor of Bithynia-Pontus in Asia Minor. He had put people accused of being Christians on trial, and wrote to ask Trajan whether he had handled it properly.
Why it’s interesting
Trajan's reply survives too, and it gave Pliny's method full approval. A letter in Peter's name greets Christians in the same region, Bithynia (1 Peter 1:1).
Scholarly consensus
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