30:1
Hyrcanus enjoys long success but conflict develops with the Perushim.
30:2
At a banquet a hostile speaker attacks the legitimacy of his priestly descent through a slander concerning his mother.
30:3
Hyrcanus turns away from the Perushim and toward their opponents.
30:4
Yosippon uses the episode to explain sectarian division and the danger by which political anger can reshape legal and religious alignment.