2 Maccabees 14:35-37

Good News Translation

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Lord, you are in need of nothing, yet it has pleased you to place your Temple here and to live among us. ³⁶ You alone are holy, and your Temple has only recently been purified, so now protect its holiness forever.

³⁷ One of the leaders in Jerusalem, a man by the name of Razis, was denounced to Nicanor. It was said that he had helped his people in many ways and was so highly respected by them that he was known as
    the Father of the Jews.