2 Maccabees 11:36-38

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³⁶ But as to the matters that he decided are to be referred to the king, as soon as you have considered them, send someone promptly so that we may make proposals appropriate for you. For we are on our way to Antioch. ³⁷ Therefore make haste and send messengers so that we may have your judgement. ³⁸ Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year,^[a] the fifteenth of Xanthicus.’