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But before I had spoken all I designed, I heard one of my own
domestics bidding me come down, for that it was not a proper time
to take care of retaining the good-will of the people of
Tiberias, but to provide for my own safety, and escape my enemies
there; for John had chosen the most trusty of those armed men
that were about him out of those thousand that he had with him,
and had given them orders when he sent them, to kill me, having
learned that I was alone, excepting some of my domestics. So
those that were sent came as they were ordered, and they had
executed what they came about, had I not leaped down from the
elevation I stood on, and with one of my guards, whose name was
James, been carried [out of the crowd] upon the back of one Herod
of Tiberias, and guided by him down to the lake, where I seized a
ship, and got into it, and escaped my enemies unexpectedly, and
came to Tarichese.
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