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 they led Christ from Caiaphas to Pilate, so they were hauled up and down from John to Simon, and scourged and tormented before their tribunal seats; again, as Jesus was scoffed at, beaten, and villanously treated by the soldiers in Pilate's palace, so were the Jewish noblemen and governors abused, beaten, and crucified by the same soldiers. Josephus affirms, that 500 of them suffered this opprobrious death in one day, insomuch that the place they died in would hardly contain so many crosses, nor could they scarce find crosses to execute them upon.

Q. What became of those sixty thousand that Titus sent as a present to his father Vespasian at Rome?

A. They were most all put to death for the Emperor's pleasure, and Josephus says, he saw, with his own eyes, fifteen hundred murdered in one day by combats among themselves, and fifteen with wild beasts, for the Emperor's diversion, and others were made bonfires of in time of triumph, and others condemned to the quarries to dig and hew stones all their lives.

Q. Was this of Titus the utter and total ruin of all the Jews?

A. After Titus Adrian destroyed an innumerable multitude, and sent his lieutenant Severus to extinguish the whole race of them, who ruined ninety-eight towns and villages, and slew 580 Jews in one day; he razed the walls and ancient buildings of Jerusalem, so that one stone was not left upon another, and changed the name of it unto Eliah, after that of his master Elias Adrianna, and made a law that it should be death for any Jewish slave ever to return thither, or so much as to look from any high place toward that country again.

Q. As there were many of the Jews converted,