c. AD 94

J. AJ 20.219

The Antiquities of the Jews 20.219

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

20.219

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

2197. And now it was that the temple was finished. So when the people saw that the workmen were unemployed, who were above eighteen thousand and that they, receiving no wages, were in want because they had earned their bread by their labors about the temple;