The Antiquities of the Jews, 8.239

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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239And when the other said that God had forbidden him to taste of any one’s provision in that city, he replied, that “for certain God had not forbidden that I should set food before thee, for I am a prophet as thou art, and worship God in the same manner that thou dost; and I am now come as sent by him, in order to bring thee into my house, and make thee my guest.”

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