c. AD 77

J. BJ 6.285

The Wars of the Jews 6.285

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

6.285

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

285A false prophet was the occasion of these people’s destruction, who had made a public proclamation in the city that very day, that God commanded them to get up upon the temple, and that there they should receive miraculous signs of their deliverance.