c. AD 94

J. AJ 20.112

The Antiquities of the Jews 20.112

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

20.112

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

112nor indeed was the number fewer than twenty thousand that perished in this tumult. So instead of a festival, they had at last a mournful day of it; and they all of them forgot their prayers and sacrifices, and betook themselves to lamentation and weeping; so great an affliction did the impudent obsceneness of a single soldier bring upon them.