Gessius

In a highly provocative gesture Gessius Florus sent soldiers into the Temple of Jerusalem to retrieve taxes he claimed were owed to the Roman purse, and a violent standoff between Roman troops and Jewish protesters followed.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

The troubles of 66 were precipitated by Gessius Florus, the brutal new Roman procurator of Judaea whom Poppaea, the woman for whom Nero had finally exiled and executed Claudia Octavia and murdered his mother, had recommended for the post in 65.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Among others, the physician Jacobus and the philosopher Gessius are executed.

The Church-State Alliance and the future of humanity 2007

A full-scale Jewish Revolt had broken out in Palestine in A.D. 66 under the rule of the Roman governor Gessius Florus.

The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

A full-scale Jewish Revolt had broken out in Palestine in A.D. 66 under the rule of the Roman governor Gessius Florus.

The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

She obliged him to adopt his cousin (Gessius) Bassianus (Alexianus?), son of her sister, Julia Mamaea.

f. The Third Century 2001

Gessius succeeded Florus Albinus, the successor of Felix.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Finally when the misgovernment of Albinus and Gessius

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Herod -- had resisted the oppression of the procurators, were now stirred to revolt by the exactions of the procurator Gessius

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906

Gessius did his unjust actions to the harm of the nation after a pompons manner; and as though he had been sent as an executioner to punish condemned malefactors, he omitted no sort of rapine, or of vexation; where the case was really pitiable, he was most barbarous, and in things of the greatest turpitude he was most impudent.

The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709