should be kept for the rebuilding of the walls of the city of
Jerusalem; although I had resolved to restore these spoils again
to their former owner. And indeed they were herein not mistaken
as to my intentions; for when I had gotten clear of them, I sent
for two of the principal men, Dassion, and Janneus the son of
Levi, persons that were among the chief friends of the king, and
commanded them to take the furniture that had been plundered, and
to send it to him; and I threatened that I would order them to be
put to death by way of punishment, if they discovered this my
command to any other person.

27. Now, when all Galilee was filled with this rumor, that their
country was about to be betrayed by me to the Romans, and when
all men were exasperated against me, and ready to bring me to
punishment, the inhabitants of Tarichee did also themselves
suppose that what the young men said was true, and persuaded my
guards and armed men to leave me when I was asleep, and to come
presently to the hippodrome, in order there to take counsel
against me their commander. And when they had prevailed with
them, and they were gotten together, they found there a great
company assembled already, who all joined in one clamor, to bring
the man who was so wicked to them as to betray them, to his due
punishment; and it was Jesus, the son of Sapphias, who
principally set them on. He was ruler in Tiberias, a wicked man,
and naturally disposed to make disturbances in matters of
consequence; a seditious person he was indeed, and an innovator
beyond every body else. He then took the laws of Moses into his
hands, and came into the midst of the people, and said," O my
fellow citizens! if you are not disposed to hate Josephus on your
own account, have regard, however, to these laws of your country,