c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.36

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.36

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.36

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

363. And now Herod the tetrarch, who was in great favor with Tiberius, built a city of the same name with him, and called it Tiberias. He built it in the best part of Galilee, at the lake of Gennesareth. There are warm baths at a little distance from it, in a village named Emmaus.