Excerpt from The Complete Works of Flavius-Josephus, the Celebrated Jewish Historian: Comprising the History and Antiquities of the Jews, With the Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans; And Dissertations Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, and the Sacrifice of Isaac, Together With a Discourse on Hades, or Hell Now, as soon as I was come into Galilee, and had learned this state of things by the in formation of such as told me of them, I wrote to the Sanhedrim at Jerusalem about them, arm required their direction what I should do. Their direction was, that I should continue there, and that, if my fellow-legates were willing, I should join with them in the care of Galilee. But those my fellow-legates, having gotten great riches from those tithes which as griests were their dues, and were given to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.