3 Maccabees 1:22-24

Revised Standard Version

²² In addition, the bolder of the citizens would not tolerate the completion of his plans or the fulfillment of his intended purpose. ²³ They shouted to their fellows to take arms and die courageously for the ancestral law, and created a considerable disturbance in the holy place;^[a] and being barely restrained by the old men and the elders,^[b] they resorted to the same posture of supplication as the others. ²⁴ Meanwhile the crowd, as before, was engaged in prayer,