c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.206

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.206

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.206

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

2061. At this time also it was that some of the Jews got together out of a desire of innovation. They lamented Matthias, and those that were slain with him by Herod, who had not any respect paid them by a funeral mourning, out of the fear men were in of that man; they were those who had been condemned for pulling down the golden eagle. The people made a great clamor and lamentation hereupon, and cast out some reproaches against the king also, as if that tended to alleviate the miseries of the deceased.