Gorion

Family: Jewish · Role: father of Joseph · First appears: Book II, Chapter 20

Life events

• Gorion, Symeon, Jesus, and Ananus urged the people to punish and expel the zealots from the temple.(Book IV, Chapter 3)
  • With: Symeon Jesus (son of Gamalas) Ananus
  • “And now the people could no longer bear the insolence of this procedure, but did all together run zealously, in order to overthrow that tyranny”
• The zealots killed Gorion because of his prominence, family, and outspoken support for democracy.(Book IV, Chapter 6 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • With: zealots
  • “on which account they slew Gorion, a person eminent in dignity, and on account of his family also”

Book II, Chapter 20

• child: Joseph the son of Gorion “Joseph also, the son of Gorion, 31 and Ananus the high priest, were chosen as governors of all affairs within the city, and with a particular charge to repair the walls of the city;”

Book IV, Chapter 3

• parent: Josephus “And indeed they were Gorion the son of Josephus, and Symeon the son of Gamaliel, 6 who encouraged them”

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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.