⁷ And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.

⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, and began to treat with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his train.

⁹ And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father laid upon us?