they said they would avenge their commander's cause
upon them. They also carried the report of what had been done to me to
all the Galileans, and eagerly endeavored to irritate them against the
people of Tiberias, and desired that vast numbers of them would get
together, and come to them, that they might act in concert with their
commander, what should be determined as fit to be done. Accordingly,
the Galileans came to me in great numbers, from all parts, with their
weapons, and besought me to assault Tiberias, to take it by force,
and to demolish it, till it lay even with the ground, and then to make
slaves of its inhabitants, with their wives and children. Those that
were Josephus's friends also, and had escaped out of Tiberias, gave him
the same advice. But I did not comply with them, thinking it a
terrible thing to begin a civil war among them; for I thought that this
contention ought not to proceed further than words; nay, I told them
that it was not for their own advantage to do what they would have me to
do, while the Romans expected no other than that we should destroy one
another by our mutual seditions. And by saying this, I put a stop to the
anger of the Galileans.

20. But now John was afraid for himself, since his treachery had proved
unsuccessful. So he took the armed men that were about him, and removed
from Tiberias to Gischala, and wrote to me to apologize for himself
concerning What had been done, as if it had been done without his
approbation, and desired me to have no suspicion of him to his
disadvantage. He also added oaths and certain horrible curses upon
himself, and supposed he should be thereby believed in the points he
wrote about to me.

21. But now another great number of the Galileans came together again
with their weapons, as knowing the man, how wicked and how sadly
perjured he was, and desired me to lead them against him and promised me
that they would utterly both him and Gischala. Hereupon I professed that
I was obliged to them for their readiness to serve me, and that I would
more than requite their good-will to me. However, I entreated them to
restrain themselves, and begged of them to give me leave to do what I
intended, which was to put an end to these troubles without bloodshed;
and when I had prevailed with the multitude of the Galileans to let me
do so, I came to Sepphoris.

22. But the inhabitants of this city having determined to continue in
their allegiance to the Romans, w