3 Maccabees 1:13-15

Revised Standard Version

¹³ And he inquired why, when he entered every other temple,^[a] no one there had stopped him. ¹⁴ And someone heedlessly said that it was wrong to take this as a sign in itself. ¹⁵ “But since this has happened,” the king^[b] said, “why should not I at least enter, whether they wish it or not?”