3 Maccabees 1:23-25

Revised Standard Version

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, ²⁵ while the elders near the king tried in various ways to change his arrogant mind from the plan that he had conceived.