22. Judas had posted armed men in readiness at strategic points for fear that the enemy might suddenly commit some treachery. But the conference was held in the proper way.
23. Nicanor stayed on in Jerusalem, where he did nothing out of place. He disbanded the throngs of people who gathered around him;
24. and he always kept Judas in his company, for he felt affection for the man.
25. He urged him to marry and have children; so Judas married and settled into an ordinary life.