Cláudio

Claudius was the Roman emperor (AD 41–54) during whose reign the church experienced significant growth and faced early persecution. He is mentioned in Acts 11:28 in connection with a great famine that occurred throughout the empire, and in Acts 18:2 as the emperor who expelled Jews from Rome—an event that brought Aquila and Priscilla to Corinth, where they met Paul. Claudius is also the Claudius Lysias of Acts 23:26, the Roman tribune who rescued Paul from the Jerusalem crowd.