Section 109
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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 77 have confidence in thee. For we and all the people bear thee testimony that thou art just, and thou respectest not persons. Persuade therefore the people not to be led astray by Jesus, for we and all the people have great confidence in thee. Stand there fore upon a wing of the temple, that thou mayest be conspicuous on high, and thy words may be easily heard by all the people ; for all the tribes have come together on account of the passover, with some of the Gentiles also. The aforesaid Scribes and Pharisees, therefore, placed James upon a wing of the temple, and cried out to him, ' O thou just man, whom we ought all to believe, since the people are led astray after Jesus that was crucified, declare to us what is the door to Jesus that was crucified/ And he answered with a loud voice, ' Why do ye ask me respecting Jesus the Son of Man ? He is now sitting in the heavens, on the right hand of great Power, and is about to come on the clouds of heaven.' And as many were confirmed, and gloried in this testimony of James, and said, Hosanna to the son of David, these same priests and Pharisees said to one another, ' We have done badly in affording such testimony to Jesus, but let us go up and cast him down, that they may dread to believe in him.' And they cried out, ' Oh, oh, Justus himself is deceived,' and they fulfilled that which is writ ten in Isaiah, ' Let us take away the just, because he is offensive to us ; wherefore they shall eat the fruit of their doings.' Is. iii. Going up therefore, they cast down the just man, saying to one another, ' Let us stone James tlje Just.' And they began to stone him, as he did not die immediately when cast down ; but turning round, he knelt down saying, * I entreat thee, O Lord God and Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' Thus they were stoning him, when one of the priests of the sons of Rechab, a son of the Rechabites, spoken of by Jeremiah the pro phet, cried out saying, ' Cease, what are you doing ? Justus is praying for you.' And one of them, a fuller, beat out the brains of Justus with the club that he used to beat out clothes. Thus he suffered martyrdom, and they buried him on the spot where his tombstone is still remaining, by the temple. (He became a faithful witness, both to the Jews and Greeks, that Jesus is the Qirist | Immediately after this, Vespasian invaded and took Ju