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Now, as my father wrote me an account of this, (for Jesus the son
of Gamala, who was present in that council, a friend and companion of mine,
told him of it,) I was very much troubled, as discovering thereby that
my fellow citizens proved so ungrateful to me, as, out of envy, to give
order that I should be slain: my father earnestly pressed me also in his
letter to come to him, for that he longed to see his son before he died.
I informed my friends of these things, and that in three days' time I should
leave the country, and go home. Upon hearing this, they were all very sorry,
and desired me, with tears in their eyes, not to leave them to be destroyed;
for so they thought they should be, if I were deprived of the command over
them: but as I did not grant their request, but was taking care of my own
safety, the Galileans, out of their dread of the consequence of my departure,
that they should then be at the mercy of the robbers, sent messengers over
all Galilee to inform them of my resolution to leave them. Whereupon, as
soon as they heard it, they got together in great numbers, from all parts,
with their wives and children; and this they did, as it appeared to me,
not more out of their affection to me, than out of their fear on their
own account; for while I staid with them, they supposed that they should
suffer no harm. So they all came into the great plain, wherein I lived,
the name of which was Asochis.
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