authority. Yet did I preserve every woman free from injuries; and
as to what presents were offered me, I despised them, as not
standing in need of them. Nor indeed would I take those tithes,
which were due to me as a priest, from those that brought them.
Yet do I confess, that I took part of the spoils of those Syrians
which inhabited the cities that adjoined to us, when I had
conquered them, and that I sent them to my kindred at Jerusalem;
although, when I twice took Sepphoris by force, and Tiberias four
times, and Gadara once, and when I had subdued and taken John,
who often laid treacherous snares for me, I did not punish [with
death] either him or any of the people forenamed, as the progress
of this discourse will show. And on this account, I suppose, it
was that God, (10) who is never unacquainted with those that do
as they ought to do, delivered me still out of the hands of these
my enemies, and afterwards preserved me when I fell into those
many dangers which I shall relate hereafter.

16. Now the multitude of the Galileans had that great kindness
for me, and fidelity to me, that when their cities were taken by
force, and their wives and children carried into slavery, they
did not so deeply lament for their own calamities, as they were
solicitous for my preservation. But when John saw this, he envied
me, and wrote to me, desiring that I would give him leave to come
down, and make use of the hot-baths of Tiberias for the recovery
of the health of his body. Accordingly, I did not hinder him, as
having no suspicion of any wicked designs of his; and I wrote to
those to whom I had committed the administration of the affairs
of Tiberius by name, that they should provide a lodging for John,
and for such as should come with him, and should procure him what
necessaries soever he should stand in need of. Now at this time