1227.—Cestius, Titus, and Destruction of Jerusalem.
By Editor
How long after the raising of the siege of Jerusalem by Cestius, and the flight of the Christians, was it till the coming of Titus and the destruction of Jerusalem? L. E. W. The attack of Cestius Gallus was, Josephus tells us, in the twelfth year of Nero, or A.D. 66. Titus, afterward the Emperor Vespasian, was then in Greece. He immediately repaired to Palestine to subdue the Jews, but the siege of Jerusalem was not actually begun till the spring of A.D. 70. But the city was really invested and threatened for some time previous. The intervening time was between three and four years.