and that there is no evidence of such a thing for at least a generation or so. The only other places in the New Testament where the word is used are on the lips of Herod Agrippa, who teases Paul for “trying to make him a Christian,” and in an early letter where Peter refers to people “suffering as Christians.”3 Both of these look as if the word was a nickname used by outsiders, quite likely in contempt (“Messiah freaks!”),
