The Jews of Inmestar Are Punished

Soon afterward the Jews renewed their malicious and impious practices against the Christians and brought deserved punishment on themselves. At a place called Inmestar, between Chalcis and Antioch in Syria, the Jews were amusing themselves in their usual way with a variety of games. In this way they indulged in many absurdities, and at last, driven by drunkenness, they went so far as to mock the Christians and even Christ himself. In derision of the cross and of those who trust in the Crucified One, they seized a Christian boy, bound him to a cross, and began to laugh and jeer at him. But in a little while they were so carried away with fury that they scourged the child until he died under their hands. This led to a sharp conflict between them and the Christians. As soon as the emperors were told what had happened, they ordered the governor of the province to find the guilty and punish them. And so the Jewish inhabitants of that place paid the penalty for the wickedness they had committed in their impious sport.