To him, the latest rebellion in Jerusalem had sprung not from purely religious motives but from a prevailing pro - Egyptian mood in Judea, and these political sentiments had been given dangerous expression precisely because the Jews, alone of all his people, had sought and been allowed a large measure of religious separatism....
जब यह अफवाह फैली कि ऐन्टिअकस मर चुका है, तो जेसन इस इरादे से एक हज़ार मनुष्यों के साथ यरूशलेम लौटा कि मैनलेस से महायाजक का पद हथिया लेगा ।