dained those of them that were most faithful to me to
be a guard to my body. I also set over them centurions, and commanded
them to take care that not a soldier which they did not know should
mingle himself among them. Now, on the fifth day following, when I was
at Gabaroth, I found the entire plain that was before the village full
of armed men, who were come out of Galilee to assist me: many others of
the multitude, also, out of the village, ran along with me. But as soon
as I had taken my place, and began to speak to them, they all made an
acclamation, and called me the benefactor and savior of the country.
And when I had made them my acknowledgments, and thanked them [for their
affection to me], I also advised them to fight with nobody, [19] nor to
spoil the country; but to pitch their tents in the plain, and be content
with their sustenance they had brought with them; for I told them that I
had a mind to compose these troubles without shedding any blood. Now it
came to pass, that on the very same day those who were sent by John with
letters, fell among the guards whom I had appointed to watch the roads;
so the men were themselves kept upon the place, as my orders were, but I
got the letters, which were full of reproaches and lies; and I intended
to fall upon these men, without saying a word of these matters to any
body.

48. Now, as soon as Jonathan and his companions heard of my coming, they
took all their own friends, and John with them, and retired to the house
of Jesus, which indeed was a large castle, and no way unlike a citadel;
so they privately laid a band of armed men therein, and shut all the
other doors but one, which they kept open, and they expected that I
should come out of the road to them, to salute them. And indeed they had
given orders to the armed men, that when I came they should let nobody
besides me come in, but should exclude others; as supposing that, by
this means, they should easily get me under their power: but they were
deceived in their expectation; for I perceived what snares they had laid
for me. Now, as soon as I was got off my journey, I took up my lodgings
over against them, and pretended to be asleep; so Jonathan and his
party, thinking that I was really asleep and at rest, made haste to go
down into the plain, to persuade the people that I was an ill governor.
But the matter proved otherwise; for, upon their appearance, there was
a cry made by the Galileans immediately, declaring t