The people of Galilee are, as you know, impetuous and rash; after years of waiting their swords burned their hands; nothing would do them but action.

'He is slow to declare himself; let us force him,' they cried to me.

And I too became impatient.

If he is to be king, why not now?
The legions are ready.

So as he was once teaching by the seaside we would have crowned him whether or not; but he disappeared, and was next seen on a ship departing from the shore.