The Siege of Jerusalem, AD 70 and Titus’s Campaigns, AD 69-70

The Siege of Jerusalem, AD 70 (Lk 21:5-6).

“Where is this city that was believed to have God himself inhabiting therein? It is now demolished to the very foundations, and hath nothing but that monument of it preserved, I mean the camp of those that hath destroyed it, which still dwells upon its ruins . . . I cannot but wish that we had all died before we had seen that holy city demolished by the hands of our enemies, or the foundations of our holy temple dug up after so profane a manner.”

- Flavius Josephus,

The Wars of the Jews VII.8.7