1. In those days, there rose up Mattathias, the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib from Jerusalem, and he settled on the mountain of Modin.
2. And he had five sons: John, who was surnamed Gaddi,
3. and Simon, who was surnamed Thassi,
4. and Judas, who was called Maccabeus,