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Now on the next day Titus came to the wall, to make the agreement;
whereupon the people opened their gates to him, and came out to him, with
their children and wives, and made acclamations of joy to him, as to one
that had been their benefactor, and had delivered the city out of custody;
they also informed him of John's flight, and besought him to spare them,
and to come in, and bring the rest of those that were for innovations to
punishment. But Titus, not so much regarding the supplications of the people,
sent part of his horsemen to pursue after John, but they could not overtake
him, for he was gotten to Jerusalem before; they also slew six thousand
of the women and children who went out with him, but returned back, and
brought with them almost three thousand. However, Titus was greatly displeased
that he had not been able to bring this John, who had deluded him, to punishment;
yet he had captives enough, as well as the corrupted part of the city,
to satisfy his anger, when it missed of John. So he entered the city in
the midst of acclamations of joy; and when he had given orders to the soldiers
to pull down a small part of the wall, as of a city taken in war, he repressed
those that had disturbed the city rather by threatenings than by executions;
for he thought that many would accuse innocent persons, out of their own
private animosities and quarrels, if he should attempt to distinguish those
that were worthy of punishment from the rest; and that it was better to
let a guilty person alone in his fears, that to destroy with him any one
that did not deserve it; for that probably such a one might be taught prudence,
by the fear of the punishment he had deserved, and have a shame upon him
for his former offenses, when he had been forgiven; but that the punishment
of such as have been once put to death could never be retrieved. However,
he placed a garrison in the city for its security, by which means he should
restrain those that were for innovations, and should leave those that were
peaceably disposed in greater security. And thus was all Galilee taken,
but this not till after it had cost the Romans much pains before it could
be taken by them.
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1 CONCERNING JOHN OF GISCHALA. CONCERNING THE ZEALOTS AND THE HIGH PRIEST ANANUS; AS ALSO HOW THE JEWS RAISE SEDITIONS ONE AGAINST ANOTHER [IN JERUSALEM].
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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