29. And setting out from thence they marched in haste against Scythopolis, which is distant from Jerusalem six hundred furlongs.
30. But when the Jews that were settled there testified of the good will that the Scythopolitans had shewn toward them, and of their kindly bearing toward them in the times of their misfortune,
31. they gave thanks, and further exhorted them to remain well affected toward the race for the future; and they went up to Jerusalem, the feast of weeks being close to hand.
32. But after the feast called Pentecost they marched in haste against Gorgias the governor of Idumaea:
33. and he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred horsemen.