[1] Judah III commissioned Johanan's pupils Ammi and Assi, who directed the Academy of Tiberias in the Land of Israel, after Eleazar ben Pedat's death, to organize the schools for children in the Palestinian cities.
[4] Ammi, however, protested against the number of fast-days which Judah set in times of trouble, saying that the community should not be overburdened.
[6] The prominent amora Jeremiah is said to have reproached Judah in a letter for hating his friends and loving his enemies.
[9] One Friday the patriarch was called upon hurriedly to visit Diocletian at Caesarea Philippi, and his extraordinarily quick journey to there from Tiberias gave rise to a legend in which the aged Samuel ben Nahman appears.
[11] When Judah III died (c. 320), Hiyya bar Abba compelled his colleague Zeira, who was of priestly descent, to ignore, in honor of the dead patriarch, the laws to be observed by kohanim.