c. AD 94

J. AJ 15.156

The Antiquities of the Jews 15.156

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

15.156

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

156but he would admit of no ambassadors, of no price of redemption, nor of any other moderate terms whatever, being very desirous to revenge those unjust actions which they had been guilty of towards his nation. So they were necessitated by other motives, and particularly by their thirst, to come out, and deliver themselves up to him, to be carried away captives;