c. AD 94

J. AJ 20.7

The Antiquities of the Jews 20.7

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

20.7

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

7Now the Jews durst not contradict what he had said, but desired Fadus, however, and Longinus, (which last was come to Jerusalem, and had brought a great army with him, out of a fear that the [rigid] injunctions of Fadus should force the Jews to rebel,) that they might, in the first place, have leave to send ambassadors to Caesar, to petition him that they may have the holy vestments under their own power; and that, in the next place, they would tarry till they knew what answer Claudius would give to that their request.