¹⁷ When they heard that his brother Simon had become high priest in his stead and that he was ruling over the country and the towns in it,^(A)

⁴⁷ So Simon accepted and agreed to be high priest, to be commander and ethnarch of the Jews and priests, and to be protector of them all.^[a](A)

³⁶ “King Demetrius to Simon, the high priest and friend of kings, and to the elders and nation of the Jews, greetings.^(A)