estrain himself from fulfilling any unlawful desires,
especially where a person is in great authority. Yet did I preserve
every woman free from injuries; and as to what presents were offered
me, I despised them, as not standing in need of them. Nor indeed would
I take those tithes, which were due to me as a priest, from those that
brought them. Yet do I confess, that I took part of the spoils of those
Syrians which inhabited the cities that adjoined to us, when I had
conquered them, and that I sent them to my kindred at Jerusalem;
although, when I twice took Sepphoris by force, and Tiberias four times,
and Gadara once, and when I had subdued and taken John, who often laid
treacherous snares for me, I did not punish [with death] either him
or any of the people forenamed, as the progress of this discourse will
show. And on this account, I suppose, it was that God, [10] who is never
unacquainted with those that do as they ought to do, delivered me still
out of the hands of these my enemies, and afterwards preserved me when I
fell into those many dangers which I shall relate hereafter.

16. Now the multitude of the Galileans had that great kindness for me,
and fidelity to me, that when their cities were taken by force, and
their wives and children carried into slavery, they did not so deeply
lament for their own calamities, as they were solicitous for my
preservation. But when John saw this, he envied me, and wrote to me,
desiring that I would give him leave to come down, and make use of
the hot-baths of Tiberias for the recovery of the health of his body.
Accordingly, I did not hinder him, as having no suspicion of any
wicked designs of his; and I wrote to those to whom I had committed
the administration of the affairs of Tiberius by name, that they should
provide a lodging for John, and for such as should come with him, and
should procure him what necessaries soever he should stand in need of.
Now at this time my abode was in a village of Galilee, which is named
Cans.

17. But when John was come to the city of Tiberias, he persuaded the men
to revolt from their fidelity to me, and to adhere to him; and many
of them gladly received that invitation of his, as ever fond of
innovations, and by nature disposed to changes, and delighting in
seditions; but they were chiefly Justus and his father Pistus, that were
earnest for their revolt from me, and their adherence to John. But I
came upon them, and prevented them; for a messe