And as they had still great success in their undertakings, they did not suffer their zeal to cool, but marched with an army as far as Scythopolis, and made an incursion upon it, and laid waste all the country that lay within Mount Carmel.
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But then these successes of John and of his sons made them be envied, and occasioned a sedition in the country; and many there were who got together, and would not be at rest till they brake out into open war, in which war they were beaten.

So John lived the rest of his life very happily, and administered the government after a most extraordinary manner, and this for thirty-three entire years together.

He died, leaving five sons behind him.

He was certainly a very happy man, and afforded no occasion to have any complaint made of fortune on his account.