Here they lived quietly for five years (about A.D.

34-39), but in the sixth year (A.D.

40) fresh troubles broke out.

The remnant of the Jews at Babylon were assailed, either by their old enemies or by a pestilence, and took refuge at Seleucia with their brethren.

It happened that at Seleucia there was a feud of long standing between the Syrian population and the Greeks.