Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

The Life of Flavius Josephus by Flavius Josephus
page 18 of 83 (21%)
neither.

18. But before I had spoken all I designed, I heard one of my own
domestics bidding me come down, for that it was not a proper time
to take care of retaining the good-will of the people of
Tiberias, but to provide for my own safety, and escape my enemies
there; for John had chosen the most trusty of those armed men
that were about him out of those thousand that he had with him,
and had given them orders when he sent them, to kill me, having
learned that I was alone, excepting some of my domestics. So
those that were sent came as they were ordered, and they had
executed what they came about, had I not leaped down from the
elevation I stood on, and with one of my guards, whose name was
James, been carried [out of the crowd] upon the back of one Herod
of Tiberias, and guided by him down to the lake, where I seized a
ship, and got into it, and escaped my enemies unexpectedly, and
came to Tarichese.

19. Now, as soon as the inhabitants of that city understood the
perfidiousness of the people of Tiberias, they were greatly
provoked at them. So they snatched up their arms, and desired me
to be their leader against them; for they said they would avenge
their commander's cause upon them. They also carried the report
of what had been done to me to all the Galileans, and eagerly
endeavored to irritate them against the people of Tiberias, and
desired that vast numbers of them would get together, and come to
them, that they might act in concert with their commander, what
should be determined as fit to be done. Accordingly, the
Galileans came to me in great numbers, from all parts, with their
weapons, and besought me to assault Tiberias, to take it by
DigitalOcean Referral Badge