Lectionary Calendar
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
Historical Writings
B.C. (Before Christ)
Antiquities of the Jews
Book 16 — Containing The Interval Of 12 Years. From The Finishing Of The Temple By Herod To The Death Of Alexander And Aristobulus.
Chapter 1 — A Law Of Herod's About, Thieves. Salome And Pheroras Calumniate Alexander And Aristobulus, Upon Their Return From Rome For Whom Yet Herod Provides Wives
Chapter 2 — How Herod Twice Sailed To Agrippa; And How Upon The Complaint In Ionia Against The Greeks Agrippa Confirmed The Laws To Them
Chapter 3 — How Great Disturbances Arose In Herods Family On His Preferring Antipater His Eldest Son Before The Rest, Till Alexander Took That Injury Very Heinously
Chapter 4 — How During Antipater's Abode At Rome, Herod Brought Alexander And Aristobulus Before Caesar And Accused Them. Alexander's Defense Of Himself Before Caesar And Reconciliation To His Father
Chapter 5 — How Herod Celebrated The Games That Were To Return Every Fifth Year Upon The Building Of Cesarea; And How He Built And Adorned Many Other Places After A Magnificent Manner; And Did Many Other Actions Gloriously
Chapter 6 — An Embassage In Cyrene And Asia To Caesar, Concerning The Complaints They Had To Make Against The Greeks; With Copies Of The Epistles Which Caesar And Agrippa Wrote To The Cities For Them
Chapter 7 — How, Upon Herod's Going Down Into David's Sepulcher, The Sedition In His Family Greatly Increased
Chapter 8 — How Herod Took Up Alexander And Bound Him; Whom Yet Archelaus King Of Cappadocia Reconciled To His Father Herod Again
Chapter 9 — Concerning The Revolt Of The Trachonites; How Sylleus Accused Herod Before Caesar; And How Herod, When Caesar Was Angry At Him, Resolved To Send Nicolaus To Rome
Chapter 10 — How Eurycles Falsely Accused Herod's Sons; And How Their Father Bound Them, And Wrote To Caesar About Them. Of Sylleus And How He Was Accused By Nicolaus
Chapter 11 — How Herod, By Permission From Caesar Accused His Sons Before An Assembly Of Judges At Berytus ; And What Tero Suffered For Using A Boundless And Military Liberty Of Speech. Concerning Also The Death Of The Young Men And, Their Burial At Alexandrium
