c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.56

The Wars of the Jews 2.56

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.56

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

56In Sepphoris also, a city of Galilee, there was one Judas (the son of that arch-robber Hezekias, who formerly overran the country, and had been subdued by king Herod); this man got no small multitude together, and broke open the place where the royal armor was laid up, and armed those about him, and attacked those that were so earnest to gain the dominion.