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>The fact that there were both Christians and Chrestians has been substantiated by a large number of Phrygian inscriptions from Anatolia (modern Turkey), including a stone inscription that says, “Chrestians for Christians”, proving that they were undeniably two distinct yet intertwining groups
>A Phrygian inscription reading, “Chrestians for Christians”
>If Christians believed in Christos, did that mean that Chrestians believed in Chrestos? Seutonius reports that since “the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, [Emperor Claudius] expelled them from Rome.” Scholars are divided as to whether to interpret this to mean that an unrelated Jew named Chrestus led the riot in Rome or that the sentence was poorly spelled and written but that Seutonius meant that Jesus inspired Jewish Christians to revolt in Rome. Given the alternate spelling that Tacitus provides, it seems very likely that Christos and Chrestus were the same person and that he inspired two different religious sects that had different interpretations of his theological status
>Acts of the Apostles, the sequel to the Gospel of Luke, implies there was some connection between the riot and Christianity because it tells of two followers of Jesus named Aquilla and Priscilla that arrived in Corinth following the expulsion and there met Paul and then taught another follower named Apollos. Now, there was actually a second century Montanist follower of Jesus named Priscilla who taught asceticism and was part of a duo as well, although it was not a man but another woman named Maximillia. Although Acts first introduces them as Aquilla and his wife Priscilla, it later switches the order to Priscilla and Aquilla. Thus it may have been that the original sources used the names Priscilla and Maximillia but were later changed to a husband and wife duo so that the story supported a revised rule that women were not allowed to teach
