1 Maccabees 16:3
“Who are these brothers if not those of whom Truth itself, rising from the dead, says in the Gospel to the women visiting His tomb: Go, tell my brothers to go into Galilee; there they will see me (Matt. 28:10). Therefore, in the place of Christ and His apostles are the saints, who, doing the will of the heavenly Father…”
3But now I am old, and ye, by God’s mercy, are of a sufficient age: be ye instead of me and my brother, and go and fight for our nation, and the help from heaven be with you.
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1Then came up John from Gazera, and told Simon his father what Cendebeus had done.
2Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said unto them, I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have ever from my youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.
— 1 Maccabees 16:3 —
4So he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war with horsemen, who went out against Cendebeus, and rested that night at Modin.
5And when as they rose in the morning, and went into the plain, behold, a mighty great host both of footmen and horsemen came against them: howbeit there was a water brook betwixt them.