themselves I also confirm that determination. He said also, that
when this was done, even those Galileans who were well affected
to me, would desert me out of fear. When John had given them this
counsel, what he had said was very agreeable to the rest of them.
I was also made acquainted with these affairs about the third
hour of the night, by the means of one Saccheus, who had belonged
to them, but now deserted them and came over to me, and told me
what they were about; so I perceived that no time was to be lost.
Accordingly, I gave command to Jacob, an armed man of my guard,
whom I esteemed faithful to me, to take two hundred men, and to
guard the passages that led from Gahara to Galilee, and to seize
upon the passengers, and send them to me, especially such as were
caught with letters about them: I also sent Jeremias himself, one
of my friends, with six hundred armed men, to the borders of
Galilee, in order to watch the roads that led from this country
to the city Jerusalem, and gave him charge to lay hold of such as
traveled with letters about them, to keep the men in bonds upon
the place, but to send me the letters.

47. When I had laid these commands upon them, I gave them orders,
and bid them take their arms and bring three days' provision with
them, and be with me the next day. I also parted those that were
about me into four parts, and ordained those of them that were
most faithful to me to be a guard to my body. I also set over
them centurions, and commanded them to take care that not a
soldier which they did not know should mingle himself among them.
Now, on the fifth day following, when I was at Gabaroth, I found
the entire plain that was before the village full of armed men,
who were come out of Galilee to assist me: many others of the
multitude, also, out of the village, ran along with me. But as