3 Maccabees 1:12-14

Revised Standard Version

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 honor, 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 heedlessly said that it was wrong to take this as a sign in itself.