14. They trusted Alcimus, who was a priest descended from Aaron, and they thought he would not cause them any harm.
15. Alcimus assured them of his peaceful intentions and solemnly promised that no harm would come to them or their friends.
16. But as soon as they began to trust him, he arrested sixty of them and put them all to death on the same day. As the scripture says,
17. “The blood of your faithful people was poured out,their bodies were scattered round Jerusalem,and there was no one left to bury the dead.”