The Wars of the Jews, 4.335

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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335and as they intended to have Zacharias the son of Baruch, one of the most eminent of the citizens, slain,—so what provoked them against him was, that hatred of wickedness and love of liberty which were so eminent in him: he was also a rich man, so that by taking him off, they did not only hope to seize his effects, but also to get rid of a man that had great power to destroy them.

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