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he narrates: 2.10.3 “The third year of his reign over all Judaea was completed, and he came to the city of Caesarea, which was formerly called Strato’s Tower. He was there celebrating shows in honor of Caesar, knowing this was a certain festival for his welfare, and at it was gathered a multitude of those in the province 2.10.4 who were in office and of high rank. On the second day of the shows, having put on a garment made wholly of silver, so as to be of a wondrous texture, he came into the theater at the beginning of the day. There the silver, being illuminated by the first rays of the sun, shone out wondrously, flashing 2.10.5 something terrible and dreadful to those who gazed upon him. Immediately his flatterers cried out from one place and another—voices that were for no good to him—addressing him as a god, adding, ‘be merciful,’ and ‘if until now we have feared you as a man, yet from 2.10.6 henceforth we confess you to be superior to mortal nature.’ The king did not rebuke them, nor did he reject their impious flattery. But looking up a little later, he saw an angel sitting over his head. This he immediately understood to be a cause of evils, as it had once been a cause of good things, and 2.10.7 he felt a piercing pain in his heart, and a pain in his belly suddenly gripped him, beginning with great violence. Turning therefore to his friends, he said: ‘I, your god, am now commanded to give up my life, as fate immediately refutes the lying words just now spoken of me. I, who was called immortal by you, am now being led away to die. But what is fated must be accepted, as God has willed. For we have lived in no mean way, but in the greatest of blessed fortune.’ And as he said these things, he was worn down by the increasing 2.10.8 pain. Therefore he was carried with haste to the palace, and a report went through to all that he was certainly about to die shortly. And the multitude, with their wives and children, immediately sat down on sackcloth according to their ancestral custom and supplicated God on behalf of the king, and all was full of wailing and lamentation. And the king, lying in a high chamber and looking down on them prostrating themselves, did not himself remain without tears. 2.10.9 And having been racked for five continuous days by the pain in his stomach, he ended his life, being in the fifty-fourth year of his life and the seventh of his reign. He reigned therefore for four years under Gaius Caesar, having ruled the tetrarchy of Philip for three years, and in the fourth having also acquired that of Herod, and for three years more under the rule of Claudius Caesar.” 2.10.10 I greatly admire Josephus for these things, which along with others are in agreement with the divine scriptures; and if to some he may seem to disagree about the king’s name, yet the time and the deed show that he is the same person, the name having been changed either through some scribal error or because he had two names, as was the case with many. 2.11.1 And since again Luke in the Acts introduces Gamaliel in the deliberation about the apostles saying that at the time indicated a certain Theudas arose, saying that he was somebody, who was destroyed, and all who obeyed him were scattered; come, let us set beside this the writing of Josephus concerning this man. He then relates these very things again, word for word, according to the passage just mentioned: 2.11.2 “When Fadus was procurator of Judaea, a certain magician, Theudas by name, persuaded the greater part of the multitude to take up their possessions and follow him to the Jordan river; for he said he was a prophet, and claimed that he would divide the river by his command and provide them an easy passage, and saying these things he deceived many. 2.11.3 Fadus, however, did not allow them to reap the benefit of their folly, but sent a squadron of cavalry against them, which, falling upon them unexpectedly, killed many and took many alive, and having captured Theudas himself, they cut off his head and brought it to Jerusalem.”

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διηγεῖται· 2.10.3 «τρίτον δ' ἔτος αὐτῷ βασιλεύοντι τῆς ὅλης Ἰουδαίας πεπλήρωτο, καὶ παρῆν εἰς πόλιν Καισάρειαν, ἣ τὸ πρότερον Στράτωνος πύργος ἐκαλεῖτο. συνετέλει δ' ἐνταῦθα θεωρίας εἰς τὴν Καίσαρος τιμήν, ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐκείνου σωτηρίας ἑορτήν τινα ταύτην ἐπιστάμενος, καὶ παρ' αὐτὴν ἤθροιστο τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἐπαρχίαν 2.10.4 ἐν τέλει καὶ προβεβηκότων εἰς ἀξίαν πλῆθος. δευτέρᾳ δὲ τῶν θεωριῶν ἡμέρᾳ στολὴν ἐνδυσάμενος ἐξ ἀργύρου πεποιημένην πᾶσαν, ὡς θαυμάσιον ὑφὴν εἶναι, παρῆλθεν εἰς τὸ θέατρον ἀρχομένης ἡμέρας. ἔνθα ταῖς πρώταις τῶν ἡλιακῶν ἀκτίνων ἐπιβολαῖς ὁ ἄργυρος καταυγασθείς, θαυμασίως ἀπέστιλβεν, μαρμαί2.10.5 ρων τι φοβερὸν καὶ τοῖς εἰς αὐτὸν ἀτενίζουσι φρικῶδες. εὐθὺς δὲ οἱ κόλακες τὰς οὐδὲν ἐκείνῳ πρὸς ἀγαθοῦ ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν φωνὰς ἀνεβόων, θεὸν προσαγορεύοντες, εὐμενής τε εἴης ἐπιλέγοντες, εἰ καὶ μέχρι νῦν ὡς ἄνθρωπον ἐφοβήθημεν, ἀλλὰ 2.10.6 τοὐντεῦθεν κρείττονά σε θνητῆς φύσεως ὁμολογοῦμεν. οὐκ ἐπέπληξεν τούτοις ὁ βασιλεὺς οὐδὲ τὴν κολακείαν ἀσεβοῦσαν ἀπετρίψατο. ἀνακύψας δὲ μετ' ὀλίγον, τῆς ἑαυτοῦ κεφαλῆς ὑπερκαθεζόμενον εἶδεν ἄγγελον. τοῦτον εὐθὺς ἐνόησεν κακῶν εἶναι αἴτιον, τὸν καί ποτε τῶν ἀγαθῶν γενόμενον, καὶ 2.10.7 διακάρδιον ἔσχεν ὀδύνην, ἄθρουν δ' αὐτῷ τῆς κοιλίας προσέφυσεν ἄλγημα, μετὰ σφοδρότητος ἀρξάμενον. ἀναθεωρῶν οὖν πρὸς τοὺς φίλους· ὁ θεὸς ὑμῖν ἐγώ, φησὶν, ἤδη καταστρέφειν ἐπιτάττομαι τὸν βίον, παραχρῆμα τῆς εἱμαρμένης τὰς ἄρτι μου κατεψευσμένας φωνὰς ἐλεγχούσης. ὁ κληθεὶς ἀθάνατος ὑφ' ὑμῶν, ἤδη θανεῖν ἀπάγομαι. δεκτέον δὲ τὴν πεπρωμένην, ᾗ θεὸς βεβούληται. καὶ γὰρ βεβιώκαμεν οὐδαμῇ φαύλως, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ τῆς μακαριζομένης μακρότητος. ταῦτα δὲ λέγων ἐπιτά2.10.8 σει τῆς ὀδύνης κατεπονεῖτο· μετὰ σπουδῆς οὖν εἰς τὸ βασίλειον ἐκομίσθη, καὶ διῇξε λόγος εἰς πάντας ὡς ἔχοι τοῦ τεθνάναι παντάπασι μετ' ὀλίγον. ἡ πληθὺς δ' αὐτίκα σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ παισὶν ἐπὶ σάκκον καθεσθεῖσα τῷ πατρίῳ νόμῳ τὸν θεὸν ἱκέτευον ὑπὲρ τοῦ βασιλέως, οἰμωγῆς τε πάντ' ἦν ἀνάπλεα καὶ θρήνων. ἐν ὑψηλῷ δ' ὁ βασιλεὺς δωματίῳ κατακείμενος καὶ κάτω βλέπων αὐτοὺς πρηνεῖς προπίπτοντας, ἄδακρυς οὐδ' αὐτὸς ἔμενεν. 2.10.9 συνεχεῖς δ' ἐφ' ἡμέρας πέντε τῷ τῆς γαστρὸς ἀλγήματι διεργασθείς, τὸν βίον κατέστρεψεν, ἀπὸ γενέσεως ἄγων πεντηκοστὸν ἔτος καὶ τέταρτον, τῆς δὲ βασιλείας ἕβδομον. τέσσαρας μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ Γαΐου Καίσαρος ἐβασίλευσεν ἐνιαυτούς, τῆς Φιλίππου μὲν τετραρχίας εἰς τριετίαν ἄρξας, τῷ τετάρτῳ δὲ καὶ τὴν Ἡρῴδου προσειληφώς, τρεῖς δ' ἐπιλαβὼν τῆς Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος αὐτοκρατορίας». 2.10.10 ταῦτα τὸν Ἰώσηπον μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ταῖς θείαις συναληθεύοντα γραφαῖς ἀποθαυμάζω· εἰ δὲ περὶ τὴν τοῦ βασιλέως προσηγορίαν δόξειέν τισιν διαφωνεῖν, ἀλλ' ὅ γε χρόνος καὶ ἡ πρᾶξις τὸν αὐτὸν ὄντα δείκνυσιν, ἤτοι κατά τι σφάλμα γραφικὸν ἐνηλλαγμένου τοῦ ὀνόματος ἢ καὶ διωνυμίας περὶ τὸν αὐτόν, οἷα καὶ περὶ πολλούς, γεγενημένης. 2.11.1 Ἐπεὶ δὲ πάλιν ὁ Λουκᾶς ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσιν εἰσάγει τὸν Γαμαλιὴλ ἐν τῇ περὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων σκέψει λέγοντα ὡς ἄρα κατὰ τὸν δηλούμενον χρόνον ἀνέστη Θευδᾶς λέγων ἑαυτὸν εἶναι τινά, ὃς κατελύθη, καὶ πάντες ὅσοι ἐπείσθησαν αὐτῷ, διελύθησαν· φέρε, καὶ τὴν περὶ τούτου παραθώμεθα τοῦ Ἰωσήπου γραφήν. ἱστορεῖ τοίνυν αὖθις κατὰ τὸν ἀρτίως δεδηλωμένον αὐτοῦ λόγον αὐτὰ δὴ ταῦτα κατὰ λέξιν· 2.11.2 «Φάδου δὲ τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἐπιτροπεύοντος, γόης τις ἀνήρ, Θευδᾶς ὀνόματι, πείθει τὸν πλεῖστον ὄχλον ἀναλαβόντα τὰς κτήσεις ἕπεσθαι πρὸς τὸν Ἰορδάνην ποταμὸν αὐτῷ· προφήτης γὰρ ἔλεγεν εἶναι, καὶ προστάγματι τὸν ποταμὸν σχίσας δίοδον ἔφη παρέξειν αὐτοῖς ῥᾳδίαν, καὶ ταῦτα λέγων πολλοὺς ἠπάτησεν. 2.11.3 οὐ μὴν εἴασεν αὐτοὺς τῆς ἀφροσύνης ὀνάσθαι Φάδος, ἀλλ' ἐξέπεμψεν ἴλην ἱππέων ἐπ' αὐτούς, ἥτις ἐπιπεσοῦσα ἀπροσδοκήτως αὐτοῖς, πολλοὺς μὲν ἀνεῖλεν, πολλοὺς δὲ ζῶντας ἔλαβεν, αὐτόν τε τὸν Θευδᾶν ζωγρήσαντες ἀποτέμνουσιν τὴν κεφαλὴν καὶ κομίζουσιν εἰς