1 Maccabees 16:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ And he sent others to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple.

²¹ Now one running before, told John in Gazara, that his father and his brethren were slain, and that he hath sent men to kill thee also.

²² But when he heard it he was exceedingly afraid: and he apprehended the men that came to kill him, and he put them to death: for he knew that they sought to take him away.