











And when the disturbance made by the men standing around the council ceased, Holofernes, commander-in-chief of the army of Assyria, said to Achior in the presence of all the foreign people,
Remember your father and mother, for you sit in council among noble men, lest you forget yourself before them and by your habit you become foolish, and you will wish you had not been born, and you will curse the day of your birth.
And the lawless men fled, terrified in themselves, and they were setting snares in order that they might kill her. And they came to the synagogue of the city where they were dwelling, and they were sitting and deliberating. The people there were all sons of Israel.
And they built a senate chamber for themselves; and day by day, three hundred and twenty decide, deliberating for everyone concerning the populace to govern themselves well. And they entrust a single person to rule them each year and to be lord over all their land, and they all listen to the one …
Now those who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. But Peter was following him from a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest. And he went inside and was sitting with the officers …