**Claudius** the aforementioned Caesar died in year 3816 [(Tzeda)].

**Nero** became Caesar in his place in year 3816 (and he was called Nero the Cruel; he killed his mother, his wife, his teacher, and his brother, and burned Roma. He watched the fire and rejoiced, and he hanged Petrus in Babylon on a tree and persecuted the Notzrim). He sent to Yerushalayim his army general Philus who imposed a heavy yoke upon them and poured out innocent blood and committed robbery and violence and afflicted women and virgins.

El'azar ben Anani and his companions rose up against him and struck all his people by the sword, as written in Josephus chapter 54. At that time King Agrippos the Second of Yehudah returned from Rome with Roman officers and spoke to the heart of the people not to rebel against the Romans and described to them their great strength and dominion. He raised his voice and wept, and the people wept, the elders and the wise.

But El'azar ben Anani and his companions rose up and killed the Roman officers who came with King Agrippos, and Agrippos fled along with the elders of Yehudah, the sages and the pious, from Yerushalayim. They captured the fortress of Tzion and the zealots fought with them for 7 days, and the hand of the king and the sages prevailed. Then the zealots rose up and burned the house of King Agrippos that was in Yerushalayim, and they plundered all his treasures and the precious items of his treasury along with the treasures of his fathers' house.

Agrippos went to Rome and told Caesar Nero all these things. The Caesar sent with him again his general Cestius with a huge and great army, and they fell before the zealots as slain, and they fled for their lives and returned to Rome in disgrace again [(Tzeda)].