Jesus in Josephus

Flavius Josephus was a Jerusalemite priest who lived in the last half of the first century. He also was the commander of the Jewish forces in Galilee during the war with Rome from AD 66–70. His fame is due to his authorship of books tracing Israel’s history from the earliest days to the fall of Masada in AD 73. The following passage about Jesus appears in his work Antiquities of the Jews, XVII