unsel against me their commander. And when they had
prevailed with them, and they were gotten together, they found there a
great company assembled already, who all joined in one clamor, to
bring the man who was so wicked to them as to betray them, to his due
punishment; and it was Jesus, the son of Sapphias, who principally set
them on. He was ruler in Tiberias, a wicked man, and naturally disposed
to make disturbances in matters of consequence; a seditious person he
was indeed, and an innovator beyond every body else. He then took the
laws of Moses into his hands, and came into the midst of the people, and
said, "O my fellow citizens! if you are not disposed to hate Josephus on
your own account, have regard, however, to these laws of your country,
which your commander-in-chief is going to betray; hate him therefore on
both these accounts, and bring the man who hath acted thus insolently,
to his deserved punishment."

28. When he had said this, and the multitude had openly applauded him
for what he had said, he took some of the armed men, and made haste
away to the house in which I lodged, as if he would kill me immediately,
while I was wholly insensible of all till this disturbance happened; and
by reason of the pains I had been taking, was fallen fast asleep. But
Simon, who was intrusted with the care of my body, and was the only
person that stayed with me, and saw the violent incursion the citizens
made upon me, awaked me, and told me of the danger I was in, and desired
me to let him kill me, that I might die bravely and like a general,
before my enemies came in, and forced me [to kill myself], or killed me
themselves. Thus did he discourse to me; but I committed the care of my
life to God, and made haste to go out to the multitude. Accordingly, I
put on a black garment, and hung my sword at my neck, and went by such
a different way to the hippodrome, wherein I thought none of my
adversaries would meet me; so I appeared among them on the sudden, and
fell down flat on the earth, and bedewed the ground with my tears: then
I seemed to them all an object of compassion. And when I perceived the
change that was made in the multitude, I tried to divide their opinions
before the armed men should return from my house; so I granted them that
I had been as wicked as they supposed me to be; but still I entreated
them to let me first inform them for what use I had kept that money
which arose from the plunder, and, that they might