3 Maccabees 1:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹² Even after the law had been read to him, he did not cease to maintain that he ought to enter, saying, ‘Even if those men are deprived of this honour, I ought not to be.’ ¹³ And he inquired why, when he entered every other temple,^[a] no one there had stopped him. ¹⁴ And someone answered thoughtlessly that it was wrong to take that as a portent.^[b]