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Nay, indeed, Tiberias had like to have been plundered by the
Galileans also upon the following occasion: - The chief men of
the senate wrote to the king, and desired that he would come to
them, and take possession of their city. The king promised to
come, and wrote a letter in answer to theirs, and gave it to one
of his bed-chamber, whose name was Crispus, and who was by birth
a Jew, to carry it to Tiberias. When the Galileans knew that this
man carried such a letter, they caught him, and brought him to
me; but as soon as the whole multitude heard of it, they were
enraged, and betook themselves to their arms. So a great many of
them together from all quarters the next day, and came to the
city Asochis, where I then lodged, and made heavy clamors, and
called the city of Tiberias a traitor to them, and a friend to
the king; and desired leave of me to go down and utterly destroy
it; for they bore the like ill-will to the people of Tiberias, as
they did to those of Sepphoris.
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