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When I had therefore received these instructions, I came into
Galilee, and found the people of Sepphoris in no small agony
about their country, by reason that the Galileans had resolved to
plunder it, on account of the friendship they had with the
Romans, and because they had given their right hand, and made a
league with Cestius Gallus, the president of Syria. But I
delivered them all out of the fear they were in, and persuaded
the multitude to deal kindly with them, and permitted them to
send to those that were their own hostages with Gessius to Dora,
which is a city of Phoenicia, as often as they pleased; though I
still found the inhabitants of Tiberias ready to take arms, and
that on the occasion following: -
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