c. AD 94

J. AJ 16.82

The Antiquities of the Jews 16.82

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

16.82

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

82Accordingly, all the reports that were spread abroad came from him, while he avoided himself the suspicion as if those discoveries proceeded from him; but he rather chose to make use of those persons for his assistants that were unsuspected, and such as might be believed to speak truth by reason of the good-will they bore to the king;