3 Maccabees 1:13-15

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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 place any significance in that.^{[b] 15} “But since this has happened,” the king^[c] said, “why should not I at least enter, whether they wish it or not?”