John (unresolved ch069)

Also known as: John · Family: Jewish · Role: leader · First appears: Book IV, Chapter 4

Life events

• Twenty thousand Idumeans assembled and marched to Jerusalem under four commanders.(Book IV, Chapter 4 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • With: Jacob Simon son of Cathlas Phineas
  • “and twenty thousand of them were put into battle-array, and came to Jerusalem, under four commanders, John, and Jacob the son of Sosas; and besides these were Simon, the son of Cathlas, and Phineas, the son of Clusothus.”
• The zealots opened the gate opposite the Idumeans, enabling them to enter Jerusalem.(Book IV, Chapter 4 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • With: Eleazar (son of Simon) Zacharias Simon son of Cathlas Jacob Phineas
  • “So they secretly went out of the temple to the wall of the city, and made use of their saws, and opened that gate which was over against the Idumeans.”
• The Idumeans entered the city and moved first to release the imprisoned zealots.(Book IV, Chapter 4 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • With: Eleazar (son of Simon) Zacharias Simon son of Cathlas Jacob Phineas
  • “but as they first of all made haste to get the zealots out of custody”

Book IV, Chapter 4

• with Ananus (John publicly attacked and threatened Ananus.) “he calumniated Ananus, that he was about a piece of barbarity, and did in a special manner threaten them.”
• with Jacob (They were co-commanders of the Idumean army.) “twenty thousand of them were put into battle-array, and came to Jerusalem, under four commanders, John, and Jacob the son of Sosas; and besides these were Simon, the son of Cathlas, and Phineas, the son of Clusothus.”
• with Simon son of Cathlas (They were co-commanders of the Idumean army.) “twenty thousand of them were put into battle-array, and came to Jerusalem, under four commanders, John, and Jacob the son of Sosas; and besides these were Simon, the son of Cathlas, and Phineas, the son of Clusothus.”
• with Phineas (They were co-commanders of the Idumean army.) “twenty thousand of them were put into battle-array, and came to Jerusalem, under four commanders, John, and Jacob the son of Sosas; and besides these were Simon, the son of Cathlas, and Phineas, the son of Clusothus.”
• with Eleazar (son of Simon) (John threatened Eleazar.) “These leaders were Eleazar, the son of Simon, who seemed the most plausible man of them all, both in considering what was fit to be done, and in the execution of what he had determined upon, and Zacharias, the son of Phalek; both of whom derived their families from the priests. Now when these two men had heard, not only the common threatenings which belonged to them all, but those peculiarly leveled against themselves;”
• with Zacharias (John threatened Zacharias.) “These leaders were Eleazar, the son of Simon, who seemed the most plausible man of them all, both in considering what was fit to be done, and in the execution of what he had determined upon, and Zacharias, the son of Phalek; both of whom derived their families from the priests. Now when these two men had heard, not only the common threatenings which belonged to them all, but those peculiarly leveled against themselves;”

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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.