c. AD 94

J. AJ 19.332

The Antiquities of the Jews 19.332

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

19.332

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

3324. However, there was a certain man of the Jewish nation at Jerusalem, who appeared to be very accurate in the knowledge of the law. His name was Simon. This man got together an assembly, while the king was absent at Caesarea, and had the insolence to accuse him as not living holily, and that he might justly be excluded out of the temple, since it belonged only to native Jews.