A Pause in Fighting to Observe Shavuot
29Setting out from there, they hastened to Scythopolis, which is seventy-five miles [120 km] from Jerusalem. [ . . . ] 31[T]hey thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the future also. Then they went up to Jerusalem, as the festival of weeks was close at hand.
32After the festival called Pentecost, they hurried against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea.
Translation from the New Revised Standard Version.
Translation from the New Revised Standard Version.
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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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