John (unresolved ch095)

Also known as: John · Family: Jewish · Role: Jewish leader · First appears: Book VI, Chapter 6

Life events

c. 70 · Titus offers to spare the besieged if they surrender their arms and bodies.(Book VI, Chapter 6)
- With: Titus Sinran
- “If you throw down your arms, and deliver up your bodies to me, I grant you your lives;”
c. 70 · Sinran and John reject Titus's offer of surrender.(Book VI, Chapter 6)
- With: Titus Sinran
- “That they could not accept of it, because they had sworn never to do so;”
c. 70 · Titus withdraws further protection and orders the besieged treated according to wartime laws.(Book VI, Chapter 6)
- With: Titus Sinran
- “for that he would henceforth spare nobody, but fight them with his whole army;”

enemies with Titus “This bridge it was that lay between the tyrants and Caesar, and parted them; while the multitude stood on each side; those of the Jewish nation about Sinran and John, with great hopes of pardon; and the Romans about Caesar, in great expectation how Titus would receive their supplication.”
with Sinran (They are presented together as leaders around whom the Jewish faction gathered.) “This bridge it was that lay between the tyrants and Caesar, and parted them; while the multitude stood on each side; those of the Jewish nation about Sinran and John, with great hopes of pardon; and the Romans about Caesar, in great expectation how Titus would receive their supplication.”

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