government for him.
But when Helena, his mother, heard of her son's death, she was in great
heaviness, as was but natural, upon her loss of such a most dutiful son;
yet was it a comfort to her that she heard the succession came to her
eldest son. Accordingly, she went to him in haste; and when she was come
into Adiabene, she did not long outlive her son Izates. But Monobazus
sent her bones, as well as those of Izates, his brother, to Jerusalem,
and gave order that they should be buried at the pyramids [8] which
their mother had erected; they were three in number, and distant no
more than three furlongs from the city Jerusalem. But for the actions
of Monobazus the king, which he did during the rest of his life, we will
relate them hereafter.

CHAPTER 5. Concerning Theudas And The Sons Of Judas The Galilean; As
Also What Calamity Fell Upon The Jews On The Day Of The Passover.

1. Now it came to pass, while Fadus was procurator of Judea, that a
certain magician, whose name was Theudas, [9] persuaded a great part of
the people to take their effects with them, and follow him to the river
Jordan; for he told them he was a prophet, and that he would, by his own
command, divide the river, and afford them an easy passage over it; and
many were deluded by his words. However, Fadus did not permit them to
make any advantage of his wild attempt, but sent a troop of horsemen out
against them; who, falling upon them unexpectedly, slew many of them,
and took many of them alive. They also took Theudas alive, and cut off
his head, and carried it to Jerusalem. This was what befell the Jews in
the time of Cuspius Fadus's government.

2. Then came Tiberius Alexander as successor to Fadus; he was the son
of Alexander the alabarch of Alexandria, which Alexander was a principal
person among all his contemporaries, both for his family and wealth: he
was also more eminent for his piety than this his son Alexander, for he
did not continue in the religion of his country. Under these procurators
that great famine happened in Judea, in which queen Helena bought corn
in Egypt at a great expense, and distributed it to those that were in
want, as I have related already. And besides this, the sons of Judas of
Galilee were now slain; I mean of that Judas who caused the people to
revolt, when Cyrenius came to take an account of the estates of the
Jews, as we have showed in a foregoing book. The names of those sons
were James and Simon, whom Ale