over to be stoned,30 making the charge that they had broken the Law. But all those in the city who seemed most reasonable and strict in matters of the Law were deeply disturbed about this and sent secretly to the emperor,31 urging him to order Ananus to cease doing such things, for he had not acted rightly from the very first. And some of them also went out to meet Albinus as he made his way from Alexandria, and informed him that Ananus could not hold a session of the council without his knowledge.