c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.78

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.78

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.78

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

78The high priest’s daughter also, who was the king’s wife, was accused to have been conscious of all this, and had resolved to conceal it; for which reason Herod divorced her, and blotted her son out of his testament, wherein he had been mentioned as one that was to reign after him; and he took the high priesthood away from his father-in-law, Simeon the son of Boethus, and appointed Matthias the son of Theophilus, who was born at Jerusalem, to be high priest in his room.