# 2 Maccabees 15:12

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Book: [2 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees)
- Chapter: [2 Maccabees 15](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees/15)
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And this was his vision: That Onias, who had been high priest, a virtuous and a good man, reverend in conversation, gentle in condition, well spoken also, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews.