Tacitus enters political life in Rome at age 22.
But his historical works to come will be his legacy.
Tacitus’s Germania (98 CE), “Histories” (105 CE), and “Annals” (117 CE) are his most prominent works.
A well–studied – and key – excerpt from Annals by Tacitus on the death of Jesus –
“Christus [Christ] from whom the name is derived…was executed at the hands of the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.”
“…at the hands of Pontius Pilate.” Period. Very explicit.
Like the Arabic accounts, and, indeed, like the Arabic accounts of Josephus, there is no mention at all of any participation or collaboration of any Jews whatsoever, or by the (Roman–appointed) Jewish High Priest or of any trial or institutional action by the Sanhedrin.