Tyrataba

TYRATABA, a Village near the Mountain Gerizim, i where a great number of the Samaritans being gathered together in Arms, after an Impostor that pretended to discover certain sacred Vessels that had been hid there by Moses, under Ground; Pilate having Intelligence of it, marched¹ marched a Party against them, gave them Battel, put them to Flight, killed a great number of them, and took several Prisoners, the chief of which he afterwards beheaded. This happened in the Year of Christ, or of the Vulgar Æra 36.

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