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How did the Romans even hear about Jesus when other religions they ignored or didn't know about? (self.askhistorians)
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[–] PugJesus 13 points 2 months ago

The Romans were well aware of mystery religions inside their borders, and Iudea was very much within the Empire's borders, and many other religions became popular in the same period that Christianity did. For that matter, they were aware of religions outside of their borders too - there's even some limited Greek and Roman writing on Buddhism.

Christianity had the good fortune of converting an Emperor (Constantine I) who imposed the faith on the whole of the Empire.