2 Maccabees 12:29-31

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁹ Setting out from there, they hastened to Scythop′olis, which is seventy-five miles^[a] from Jerusalem. ³⁰ But when the Jews who dwelt there bore witness to the good will which the people of Scythop′olis 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 feast of weeks was close at hand.