c. AD 94

J. AJ 20.180

The Antiquities of the Jews 20.180

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

20.180

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

180And now arose a sedition between the high priests and the principal men of the multitude of Jerusalem; each of which got them a company of the boldest sort of men, and of those that loved innovations about them, and became leaders to them; and when they struggled together, they did it by casting reproachful words against one another, and by throwing stones also. And there was nobody to reprove them; but these disorders were done after a licentious manner in the city, as if it had no government over it.