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While Claudius was still emperor, it happened that so great a tumult
and disturbance took place in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover,
that thirty thousand of those Jews alone who were forcibly crowded
together at the gate of the temple perished, being trampled under foot
by one another. Thus the festival became a season of mourning for all
the nation, and there was weeping in every house. These things are
related literally by Josephus.
But Claudius appointed Agrippa, son of Agrippa, king of the
Jews, having sent Felix as procurator of the whole country of
Samaria and Galilee, and of the land called Perea. And after he
had reigned thirteen years and eight months a he died, and left Nero
as his successor in the empire.
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