By a strange mishap an important command was entrusted to him.

He betrayed his country, and saved himself by eager submission to the Romans.

He became a personal friend of Vespasian and the constant companion of his son Titus.
Traitor though he was to the national cause, Josephus was a steadfast champion of the Jewish religion.

All his works are animated with a desire to present Judaism and the Jews in the best light.

He was indignant that heathen historians wrote with scorn of the vanquished Jews, and resolved to describe the noble stand made by the Jewish armies against Rome.