[The cause of the quarrel between Pilate and Herod was, according to the account of Sister Emmerich, simply this:  Pilate had undertaken to build an aqueduct on the south-east side of the mountain on which the Temple stood, at the edge of the torrent into which the waters of the pool of Bethsaida emptied themselves, and this aqueduct was to carry off the refuse of the Temple.  Herod, through the medium of one of his confidants, who was a member of the Sanhedrin, agreed to furnish him with the necessary materials, as also with twenty-eight architects, who were also Herodians.  His aim was to set the Jews still more against the Roman governor, by causing the undertaking to fail.  He accordingly came to a private understanding with the architects, who agreed to construct the aqueduct in such a manner that it would be certain to fail.  When the work was almost finished, and a number of bricklayers from Ophel were busily employed in removing the scaffolding, the twenty-eight builders went on to the top of the Tower of Siloe to contemplate the crash which they knew must take place.  Not only did the whole of the building crumble to pieces, fall, and kill ninety-three workmen, but even the tower containing the twenty-eight architects came down, and not one escaped death.  This accident occurred a short time previous to the 8th of January, two years after Jesus had commenced preaching; it took place on Herod’s birthday, the same day that John the Baptist was beheaded in the Castle of Marcherunt.  No Roman officer attended these festivities on account of the affair of the aqueduct, although Pilate had, with hypocritical politeness, been requested to take a part in them.  Sister Emmerich saw some of the disciples of Jesus carry the news of this event into Samaria, where he was teaching, on the 8th of January.  Jesus went from thence to Hebron, to comfort the family of John; and she saw him, on the 13th of January, cure many among the workmen of Ophel who had been injured by the fall of the aqueduct.  We have seen by the relation previously given how little gratitude they showed him.  The enmity of Herod towards Pilate was still farther increased by the manner in which the latter revenged himself on the followers of Herod.  We will insert here a few details which were communicated at different times to Sister Emmerich.  On the 25th of March, of the second year of our Lord’s preaching, when Jesus and his disciples were in the neighbourhood of Bethania, they were warned by Lazarus that Judas of Gaulon intended to excite an insurrection against Pilate.  On the 28th of March, Pilate issued a proclamation to the effect that he intended to impose a tax, the proceeds of which were partly to cover the expenses he had incurred in raising the building which had just fallen to the ground.  This announcement was followed by a sedition headed by Judas of Gaulon, who always stood up for liberty, and who was (unknown to himself) a tool in the hands of the Herodians.  The Herodians were rather like our Freemasons.