c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.82

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.82

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.82

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

82He procured also three other men, entirely of the same character with himself, to be his partners. These men persuaded Fulvia, a woman of great dignity, and one that had embraced the Jewish religion, to send purple and gold to the temple at Jerusalem; and when they had gotten them, they employed them for their own uses, and spent the money themselves, on which account it was that they at first required it of her.