1. In those days a priest from Joarib’s family named Mattathias, the son of John and grandson of Simeon, moved from Jerusalem and settled in Modein.
2. He had five sons: John, who had the surname Gaddi;
3. Simon, called Thassi;
4. Judas, called Maccabeus;
5. Eleazar, called Avaran; and Jonathan, called Apphus.