2 Maccabees 12:29-31

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁹ Setting out from there, they hastened to Scythopolis, which is seventy-five miles^[a] from Jerusalem. ³⁰ But when the Jews who lived there bore witness to the goodwill that the people of Scythopolis had shown them and their kind treatment of them in times of misfortune, ³¹ they thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the future also. Then they went up to Jerusalem, as the festival of weeks was close at hand.