“For when the shepherds are slaughtered, the flocks are driven to flee in different directions, as it is written in the prophet Zechariah in the foretelling of the passion of Christ: "Strike," he says, "the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered" (Zech. 13:7). The evangelist brought this forward as test…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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18Judas also was killed, and the remnant fled.
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16But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right wing were discomfited, they followed upon Judas and those that were with him hard at the heels from behind:
17Whereupon there was a sore battle, insomuch as many were slain on both parts.
— 1 Maccabees 9:18 —
19THen Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers in Modin.
20Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying,