and during our supper time I said to them, that I knew the power
of the Romans was superior to all others, but did not say so
[publicly] because of the robbers. So I advised them to do as I
did, and to wait for a proper opportunity, and not to be uneasy
at my being their commander; for that they could not expect to
have another who would use the like moderation that I had done. I
also put Justus in mind how the Galileans had cut off his
brother's hands before ever I came to Jerusalem, upon an
accusation laid against him, as if he had been a rogue, and had
forged some letters; as also how the people of Gamala, in a
sedition they raised against the Babylonians, after the departure
of Philip, slew Chares, who was a kinsman of Philip, and withal
how they had wisely punished Jesus, his brother Justuses sister's
husband [with death]. When I had said this to them during supper
time, I in the morning ordered Justus, and all the rest that were
in prison, to be loosed out of it, and sent away.

36. But before this, it happened that Philip, the son of Jacimus,
went out of the citadel of Gamala upon the following occasion:
When Philip had been informed that Varus was put out of his
government by king Agrippa, and that Equieulus Modius, a man that
was of old his friend and companion, was come to succeed him, he
wrote to him, and related what turns of fortune he had had, and
desired him to forward the letters he sent to the king and queen.
Now, when Modius had received these letters, he was exceedingly
glad, and sent the letters to the king and queen, who were then
about Berytus. But when king Agrippa knew that the story about
Philip was false, (for it had been given out, that the Jews had
begun a war with the Romans, and that this Philip had been their
commander in that war,) he sent some horsemen to conduct Philip