¹⁷ When they heard that his brother Simon had become high priest in his stead and that he was ruling over the country and the towns in it,^(A)

³⁵ “The people saw Simon’s faithfulness^[a] and the glory that he had resolved to win for his nation, and they made him their leader and high priest because he had done all these things and because of the justice and loyalty that he had maintained toward his nation. He sought in every way to exalt his people.^(A)