But when I was come near Sogane, I caused the multitude to make a halt, and exhorted them not to be so easily provoked to anger, and to the inflicting such punishments as could not be afterwards recalled: I also gave order, that a hundred men, who were already in years, and were principal men among them, should get themselves ready to go to the city of Jerusalem , and should .make a complaint before the people of such as raised seditions in the country. And I said to them, that in case they be moved with what you say, you shall desire the community to write to me, and to enjoin me to continue in Galilee , and to order Jonathan and his colleagues to depart out of it. When I had suggested these instructions to them, and while they were getting themselves ready as fast as they could, I sent them on this errand the third day after they had been assembled: I also sent five hundred armed men with them [as a guard]. I then wrote to my friends in Samaria , to take care that they might safely pass through the country: for Samaria was already under the Romans, and it was absolutely necessary for those that go quickly [to Jerusalem ] to pass through that country; for in that road you may, in three days’ time, go from Galilee to Jerusalem . I also went myself, and conducted the old men as far as the bounds of Galilee , and set guards in the roads, that it might not be easily known by any one that these men were gone. And when I had thus done, I went and abode at Japha.