V. ANANIAS, sirnamed the Sadducee1, was one of the warmest defenders of the Rebellion which the Jews were engaged in against the Romans. He was sent by Eleazar the Leader of the Mutineers, to Metilius Captain of the Roman Troops, who was shut up in the Royal Palace of Jerusalem, to promise from the Rebels, that they would give him and his people their lives, provided they would leave the place, and surrender up their arms. But Metilius having surrendred upon these conditions, the Factious, without any regard to their word, murdered all the Romans, except Metilius only, who promised to turn Jew.
In the year of J. C. 66.This was the Ananias sent by Eleazar to the Idumæans2 with a request that they would come to the assistance of the Rebels at Jerusalem against Ananus, whom they had accused of a design to deliver up the City to the Romans. This happened in the year of J. C. 67.
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