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Now Jesus, who was the ruler, commanded that they should exclude
all that came with me, for he kept the door himself, and suffered none
but his friends to go in. And while we were engaged in the duties of the
day, and had betaken ourselves to our prayers, Jesus got up, and inquired
of me what was become of the vessels that were taken out of the king's
palace, when it was burnt down [and] of that uncoined silver; and in whose
possession they now were? This he said, in order to drive away time till
John should come. I said that Capellus, and the ten principal men of Tiberias,
had them all; and I told him that they might ask them whether I told a
lie or not. And when they said they had them, he asked me, What is become
of those twenty pieces of gold which thou didst receive upon the sale of
a certain weight of uncoined money? I replied, that I had given them to
those ambassadors of theirs, as a maintenance for them, when they were
sent by them to Jerusalem. So Jonathan and his colleagues said that I had
not done well to pay the ambassadors out of the public money. And when
the multitude were very angry at them for this, for they perceived the
wickednes of the men, I understood that a tumult was going to arise; and
being desirous to provoke the people to a greater rage against the men,
I said, "But if I have not done well in paying our ambassadors out
of the public stock, leave off your anger at me, for I will repay the twenty
pieces of gold myself."
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