Bersobe, Selamin, Jotapata, Capharecho, and Sigo, and Japha, and
Mount Tabor. (15) I also laid up a great quantity of corn in
these places, and arms withal, that might be for their security
afterward.

38. But the hatred that John, the son of Levi, bore to me, grew
now more violent, while he could not bear my prosperity with
patience. So he proposed to himself, by all means possible, to
make away with me; and built the walls of Gischala, which was the
place of his nativity. He then sent his brother Simon, and
Jonathan, the son of Sisenna, and about a hundred armed men, to
Jerusalem, to Simon, the son of Gamaliel, (16) in order to
persuade him to induce the commonalty of Jerusalem to take from
me the government over the Galileans, and to give their suffrages
for conferring that authority upon him. This Simon was of the
city of Jerusalem, and of a very noble family of the sect of the
Pharisees, which are supposed to excel others in the accurate
knowledge of the laws of their country. He was a man of great
wisdom and reason, and capable of restoring public affairs by his
prudence, when they were in an ill posture. He was also an old
friend and companion of John; but at that time he had a
difference with me. When therefore he had received such an
exhortation, he persuaded the high priests, Ananus, and Jesus the
son of Gamala, and some others of the same seditious faction, to
cut me down, now I was growing so great, and not to overlook me
while I was aggrandizing myself to the height of glory; and he
said that it would be for the advantage of the Galileans, if I
were deprived of my government there. Ananus also, and his
friends, desired them to make no delay about the matter, lest I
should get the knowledge of what was doing too soon, and should