afterwards recalled: I also gave order, that a hundred men, who
were already in years, and were principal men among them, should
get themselves ready to go to the city of Jerusalem, and should
.make a complaint before the people of such as raised seditions
in the country. And I said to them, that" in case they be moved
with what you say, you shall desire the community to write to me,
and to enjoin me to continue in Galilee, and to order Jonathan
and his colleagues to depart out of it." When I had suggested
these instructions to them, and while they were getting
themselves ready as fast as they could, I sent them on this
errand the third day after they had been assembled: I also sent
five hundred armed men with them [as a guard]. I then wrote to my
friends in Samaria, to take care that they might safely pass
through the country: for Samaria was already under the Romans,
and it was absolutely necessary for those that go quickly [to
Jerusalem] to pass through that country; for in that road you
may, in three days' time, go from Galilee to Jerusalem. I also
went myself, and conducted the old men as far as the bounds of
Galilee, and set guards in the roads, that it might not be easily
known by any one that these men were gone. And when I had thus
done, I went and abode at Japha.

53. Now Jonathan and his colleagues, having failed of
accomplishing what they would have done against me, sent John
back to Gischala, but went themselves to the city of Tiberias,
expecting it would submit itself to them; and this was founded on
a letter which Jesus, their then governor, had written them,
promising that, if they came, the multitude would receive them,
and choose to be under their government; so they went their ways
with this expectation. But Silas, who, as I said, had been left