1 Maccabees 14:39-41

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁹ According to these things he made him his friend, and glorified him with great glory.

⁴⁰ For he had heard that the Romans had called the Jews their friends, and confederates, and brethren, and that they had received Simon's ambassadors with honour:

⁴¹ And that the Jews, and their priests, had consented that he should be their prince, and high priest for ever, till there should arise a faithful prophet: