3 Maccabees 1:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹³ And he inquired why, when he entered every other temple,^[a] no one there had stopped him. ¹⁴ And someone answered thoughtlessly that it was wrong to take that as a portent.^{[b] 15} ‘But since this has happened’, the king^[c] said, ‘why should not I at least enter, whether they wish it or not?’