2 Maccabees 14:37-39

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Razis Dies for His Country

³⁷ A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a man who loved his compatriots and was very well thought of and for his goodwill was called father of the Jews. ³⁸ For before the days of separation, he had been accused of Judaism, and he had most zealously risked body and life for Judaism.^{(A) 39} Nicanor, wishing to exhibit the enmity that he had for the Jews, sent more than five hundred soldiers to arrest him,