Legion near Judea at time of Jesus

[Nathan Ross]

There was no Legion deployed to Judea until VI Ferrata was placed in Caparcotna after the first Jewish revolt.

Slightly OT point - X Fretensis was stationed in Jerusalem after the first revolt, c.AD70. The fortress at Caparcotna likely dates to some time before the Bar Kokhba war - Galilee was one of the centres of the first revolt, but there seems to have been little disturbance there later, perhaps suggesting that the presence of a legion in the area was sufficient to deter any major outbreak.

Local milestones and building inscriptions from the site suggest that VI Ferrata was moved there around the 120s, although the exact sequence of legion movements during this period remains unclear: elements of II Traiana were also operating in the area around the same time, and the situation of XXII Deiotariana after AD119 is completely unknown.