The following are historical accounts that state that Yahusha` ben YHWH was of the line of Dawiyd, and as a result, many of his relatives were killed to prevent any possible disturbances.

Hegesippus, a Yahudiy [Jewish], was a historian, and an early believer in Yahusha` as Mashiyach. His complete writings no longer exist. The following account is that quoted in Esuebius' writings.

Domitian, was the Roman Emperor. He ruled from 81-96 CE. Born Titus Flavius Domitianus Augustus in 51 CE. He was the son of Vespasian (who attacked Israel) and brother to Titus (who was in charge of destorying Yerushalyim). When Titus died, Domitian succeeded him as Emperor of Rome. He had statues of himself and his family made, proclaiming themselves, deities. He required officials to speak of him, in their documents, as Dominus et Deus Noster – “Our Lord and God.” The Yahudiym and Chrisitans refused to acknowledge him as a god. In 93 CE, Domitian executed Christians for refusing to offer sacrifices to his image. In 94 CE, he banished the Yahudiym [Jews] of Rome to the Valley of Egeria. Eusebius writes that it was Domitian that banished Yahuchanan [John], the brother of Yaaqob [James] to the isle of Patmos, where the Fourth Basar [Good News] and the Book of Revelations were written. In 96 CE, Emperor Nerva brought them back and restored their rights. Domitian became increasingly mad and torturous, even to his own household. In 96 CE, he was killed, in the night, by several of his household staff.

Eusebius quoting Hegesippus.

Eusebius Book III, Chapters 11,12

"Symeon ruled the Church of Jerusalem after the martyrdom of James and the capture of Jerusalem which immediately followed, (2) and the report is that those of the apostles and disciples of the Lord that were still living came together from all directions with those that were related to the Lord according to the flesh (3) (for the majority of them also were still alive) to take counsel as to who was worthy to succeed James. They all with one consented to pronounced Symeon, (4) the son of Cleophas, of whom the sacred volume also makes mention; (5) to be worthy of the episcopal seat there. He was a cousin, as they say, of the Saviour. For Hegesippus records that Cleophas was a brother of Joseph. (6)"

CHAPTER XII.

"He also relates that Vespasian after the capture of Jerusalem gave orders that all that belonged to the lineage of David should be sought out, in order that none of the royal race might be left among the Jews; and in consequence of this a most terrible persecution again hung over the Jews."

Book III, Chapter XIX

"But when this same Domitian had commanded that the descendants of David should be slain, an ancient tradition says that some of the heretics brought accusation against the descendants of Jude (said to have been a brother of the Saviour according to the flesh), on the ground that they were of the lineage of David and were related to Christ himself. Hegesippus relates these facts in the following words."

CHAPTER XX.

The Relatives of our Saviour.

"Of the family of the Lord there were still living the grandchildren of Jude, who is said to have been the Lord's brother according to the flesh. Information was given that they belonged to the family of David, and they were brought to the Emperor Domitian by the Evocatus. For Domitian feared the coming of Christ as Herod also had feared it. And he asked them if they were descendants of David, and they confessed that they were. Then he asked them how much property they had, or how much money they owned. And both of them answered that they had only nine thousand denarii, half of which belonged to each of them; and this property did not consist of silver, but of a piece of land which contained only thirty-nine acres, and from which they raised their taxes and supported themselves by their own labor." Then they showed their hands, exhibiting the hardness of their bodies and the callousness produced upon their hands by continuous toil as evidence of their own labor. And when they were asked concerning Christ and his kingdom, of what sort it was and where and when it was to appear, they, answered that it was not a temporal nor an earthly kingdom, but a heavenly and angelic one, which would appear at the end of the world, when he should come in glory to judge the quick and the dead, and to give unto every one according to his works. Upon hearing this, Domitian did not pass judgment against them, but, despising them as of no account, he let them go, and by a decree put a stop to the persecution of the Church. But when they were released they ruled the churches because they were witnesses and were also relatives of the Lord. And peace being established, they lived until the time of Trojan. These things are related by Hegesippus. Tertullian also has mentioned Domitian in the following words: "Domitian also, who possessed a share of Nero's cruelty, attempted once to do the same thing that the latter did. But because he had, I suppose, some intelligence, he very soon ceased, and even recalled those whom he had banished." But after Domitian had reigned fifteen years, and Nerva had succeeded to the empire, the Roman Senate, according to the writers that record the history of those days, voted that Domitian's honors should be cancelled, and that those who had been unjustly banished should return to their homes and have their property restored to them. It was at this time that the apostle John returned from his banishment in the island and took up his abode at Ephesus, according to an ancient Christian tradition."