c. AD 77

J. BJ 6.114

The Wars of the Jews 6.114

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

6.114

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

114of whom were the high priests Joseph and Jesus, and of the sons of high priests three, whose father was Ishmael, who was beheaded in Cyrene, and four sons of Matthias, as also one son of the other Matthias, who ran away after his father’s death, and whose father was slain by Simon the son of Gioras, with three of his sons, as I have already related; many also of the other nobility went over to the Romans, together with the high priests.