2 Maccabees 14:30-32

Good News Translation

³⁰ Judas, however, noticed that Nicanor was becoming hostile and rude toward him, and he knew that this was a bad sign. So he gathered a large number of his followers and went into hiding.

^31 (A)When Nicanor realized that Judas had outsmarted him, he went to the great and holy Temple at the time when the priests were offering sacrifice and ordered them to surrender Judas to him. ³² But the priests declared under oath that they had no idea where Judas was hiding.