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• Simon Bar Kokhba started the revolt from the city of Modi’in - the same city in Israel from which the priest Mattathias and his sons, including one called Simon, had earlier started the Maccabean Revolt.
• “Eusebius of Caesarea wrote that Christians were killed and suffered "all kinds of persecutions" at the hands of Jews when they refused to help Bar Kokhba against the Roman troops.”
• Thus, the Bar Kokhba Revolt was likely to be one of several factors involved in Christianity and Judaism parting and going their separate ways. Prior to this, the Romans treated Jews and Christians as much the same. But after this, the Romans continued to despise Jews, and Christianity gained a more favoured place, leading up to the Emperor Constantine converting to Christianity.