By a ruse, he disposes of his opponents in Tiberias (Flavius Josephus Autobiography) (Flavius Josephus)

62. However, the governors of Tiberias took care to have their city secured with walls and commanded their inhabitants to take their arms. They also sent for a great many soldiers from John, to assist them against me, if there should be occasion for them. Now John was at Gischala. Jonathan, therefore and those that were with him, when they were departed from Tiberias and as soon as they had come to Dabaritta, a village that lay in the utmost parts of Galilee, in the great plain, they, about midnight, fell among the guards I had set, who both commanded them to lay aside their weapons and kept them in bonds upon the place, as I had charged them to do. This news was written to me by Levi, who had the command of that guard committed to him by me. Hereupon I said nothing of it for two days; and, pretending to know nothing about it, I sent a message to the people of Tiberias and advised them to lay their arms aside and to dismiss their men, that they might go home. But, supposing that Jonathan and those that were with him, were already arrived at Jerusalem, they made reproachful answers to me; yet was I not terrified thereby, but contrived another stratagem against them, for I did not think it agreeable with piety to kindle the fire of war against the citizens.

As I wished to draw those men away from Tiberias, I chose out ten thousand of the best of my armed men and divided them into three bodies and ordered them to go privately and lie still as an ambush, in the villages. I also led a thousand into another village, which lay indeed in the mountains, as did the others, but only four furlongs distant from Tiberias; and gave orders, that when they saw my signal, they should come down immediately, while I myself lay with my soldiers in the sight of everyone. Hereupon the people of Tiberias, at the sight of me, came running out of the city perpetually and abused me greatly. Indeed their madness had come to that height, that they made a decent bier for me, and, standing about it, they mourned over me in the way of jest and sport; and I could not but be myself in a pleasant humour upon the sight of this madness of theirs.

63. and now being desirous to catch Simon by a wile and Joazar with him, I sent a message to them and asked them to come a little way out of the city and many of their friends to guard them; for I said I would come down to them and make a league with them and divide the government of Galilee with them. Accordingly, Simon was deluded on account of his imprudence and out of the hopes of gain and did not delay to come; but Joazar, suspecting snares were laid for him, stayed behind. So when Simon was come out and his friends with him, for his guard, I met him and saluted him with great civility and professed that I was obliged to him for his coming up to me; but a little while afterward I walked along with him as though I would say something to him by myself; and when I had drawn him a good way from his friends, I took him about the middle and gave him to my friends that were with me, to carry him into a village; and, commanding my armed men to come down, I with them made an assault upon Tiberias.
Now, as the fight grew hot on both sides and the soldiers belonging to Tiberias were in a fair way to conquer me, (for my armed men were already fled away,) I saw the posture of my affairs; and encouraging those that were with me, I pursued those of Tiberias, even when they were already conquerors, into the city. I also sent another band of soldiers into the city by the lake and gave them orders to set on fire the first house they could seize upon. When this was done, the people of Tiberias thought that their city was taken by force and so threw down their arms for fear and implored, they, their wives and children, that I would spare their city. So I was over-persuaded by their entreaties and restrained the soldiers from the vehemency with which they pursued them; while I myself, upon the coming on of the evening, returned back with my soldiers and went to refresh myself. I also invited Simon to sup with me and comforted him on occasion of what had happened; and I promised that I would send him safe and secure to Jerusalem and also would give him provisions for his journey there.

64. But on the next day, I brought ten thousand armed men with me and came to Tiberias. I then sent for the principal men of the multitude into the public place and enjoined them to tell me who were the authors of the revolt; and when they told me who the men were, I sent them bound to the city Jotapata. But as to Jonathan and Ananias, I freed them from their bonds and gave them provisions for their journey, together with Simon and Joazar and five hundred armed men who should guard them; and so I sent them to Jerusalem. The people of Tiberias also came to me again and asked that I would forgive them for what they had done; and they said they would amend what they had done amiss with regard to me, by their fidelity for the time to come; and they besought me to preserve what spoils remained upon the plunder of the city, for those that had lost them. Accordingly, I enjoined those that had got them, to bring them all before us; and when they did not comply for a great while and I saw one of the soldiers that were about me with a garment on that was more splendid than ordinary, I asked him whence he had it; and when he replied that he had it out of the plunder of the city, I had him punished with stripes; and I threatened all the rest to inflict a severer punishment upon them, unless they produced before us whatsoever they had plundered; and when a great many spoils were brought together, I restored to every one of Tiberias what they claimed to be their own.