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Antiquities of the Jews

Josephus, Flavius · c. 93–94 CE primary

passage 957 of 1072 · BOOK I. Containing The Interval Of Three Thousand Eight Hundred And > CHAPTER 3. Sedition Of The Jews Against Pontius Pilate. Concerning (2/4)

in brief
Josephus recounts the Isis temple plot at Rome involving Decius Mundus, Paulina, and priests, with Tiberius ordering crucifixions and demolishing the Isis statue, and then returns to a Jewish affair at Rome.

they were about, there were a great number of them slain by this means, and others of them ran away wounded. And thus an end was put to this sedition.

  1. Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, 9 those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; 10 as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
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topics: conspiracy and assassination · crime and punishment · miracles and divine intervention

Antiquities of the Jews · Josephus, Flavius · 93–94