11:33 Fare ye well. In the hundred forty and eighth year, and the fifteenth day of the month Xanthicus.
11:34 The Romans also sent unto them a letter containing these words: Quintus Memmius and Titus Manlius, ambassadors of the Romans, send greeting unto the people of the Jews.
11:35 Whatsoever Lysias the king’s cousin hath granted, therewith we also are well pleased.
11:36 But touching such things as he judged to be referred to the king, after ye have advised thereof, send one forthwith, that we may declare as it is convenient for you: for we are now going to Antioch.
11:37 Therefore send some with speed, that we may know what is your mind.
11:38 Farewell. This hundred and eight and fortieth year, the fifteenth day of the month Xanthicus.
12:1 When these covenants were made, Lysias went unto the king, and the Jews were about their husbandry.
12:2 But of the governors of several places, Timotheus, and Apollonius the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to be quiet and live in peace.
12:3 The men of Joppa also did such an ungodly deed: they prayed the Jews that dwelt among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had prepared, as though they had meant them no hurt.
12:4 Who accepted of it according to the common decree of the city, as being desirous to live in peace, and suspecting nothing: but when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no less than two hundred of them.