And Simon called in his two eldest sons Judas and John and said to them: “My brothers and I and my father’s house have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times.

At that time Judas the brother of John was wounded, but John pursued them until Cendebeus reached Kedron, which he had built.

are written in the annals of his high priesthood, from the time that he became high priest after his father.