Pilate's wife had found opportunity to tell me about her.

She was of old royal stock.

Her sister was wife of Philip, tetrarch of Gaulonitis and Batanaea.

Now this Philip was brother to Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea, and both were sons of Herod, called by the Jews the "Great." Miriam, as I understood, was at home in the courts of both tetrarchs, being herself of the blood.

Also, when a girl, she had been betrothed to Archelaus at the time he was ethnarch of Jerusalem.