Life of Josephus
Flavius Josephus
Section 8
About this work
Josephus’s autobiographical defense of his conduct, especially his command in Galilee during the Jewish revolt. It also recounts his background and later life.
- Author
- Flavius Josephus
- Date
- Later first century AD
- Genre
- History
- Textual language
- Greek
- Translator
- William Whiston
- Translation / Edition
- William Whiston translation, first published 1737.
8. When I had therefore received these instructions, I came into Galilee, and found the people of Sepphoris in no small agony about their country, by reason that the Galileans had resolved to plunder it, on account of the friendship they had with the Romans, and because they had given their right hand, and made a league with Cestius Gallus, the president of Syria. But I delivered them all out of the fear they were in, and persuaded the multitude to deal kindly with them, and permitted them to send to those that were their own hostages with Gessius to Dora, which is a city of Phoenicia, as often as they pleased; though I still found the inhabitants of Tiberias ready to take arms, and that on the occasion following:—