curator of Tiberias by me, informed me of this, and desired me to
make haste thither. Accordingly, I complied with his advice
immediately, and came thither; but found myself in danger of my
life, from the following occasion: Jonathan and his colleagues
had been at Tiberias, and had persuaded a great many of such as
had a quarrel with me to desert me; but when they heard of my
coming, they were in fear for themselves, and came to me; and
when they had saluted me, they said, that I was a happy man in
having behaved myself so well in the government of Galilee; and
they congratulated me upon the honors that were paid me: for they
said that my glory was a credit to them, since they had been my
teachers and fellow citizens; and they said further, that it was
but just that they should prefer my friendship to them rather
than John's, and that they would have immediately gone home, but
that they staid that they might deliver up John into my power;
and when they said this they took their oaths of it, and those
such as are most tremendous amongst us, and such as I did not
think fit to disbelieve. However, they desired me to lodge some
where else, because the next day was the sabbath, and that it was
not fit the city of Tiberias should be disturbed [on that day].

54. So I suspected nothing, and went away to Tarichese; yet did I
withal leave some to make inquiry in the city how matters went,
and whether any thing was said about me: I also set many persons
all the way that led from Tarichese to Tiberias, that they might
communicate from one to another, if they learned any news from
those that were left in the city. On the next day, therefore,
they all came into the Proseucha; (22) it was a large edifice,
and capable of receiving a great number of people; thither
Jonathan went in, and though he durst not openly speak of a