1 Maccabees 7:33-35

Good News Translation

³³ Some time later Nicanor went to Mount Zion. Some of the priests left the Temple and, along with some of the leaders of the people, went to welcome him with words of peace and to show him the burnt offering that was being sacrificed on behalf of the king. ³⁴ But he ridiculed them and made them ceremonially unclean by spitting on them. He spoke proudly ³⁵ and angrily threatened them with an oath,