11:1
Μετὰ τὴν Ἰακώβου μαρτυρίαν καὶ τὴν αὐτίκα γενομένην ἅλωσιν τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ λόγος κατέχει τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν τοῦ κυρίου μαθητῶν τοὺς εἰσέτι τῷ βίῳ λειπομένους ἐπὶ ταὐτὸ πανταχόθεν συνελθεῖν, ἅμα τοῖς πρὸς γένους κατὰ σάρκα τοῦ κυρίου (πλείους γὰρ καὶ τούτων περιῆσαν εἰσέτι τότε τῷ βίῳ) βουλήν τε ὁμοῦ τοὺς πάντας περὶ τοῦ τίνα χρὴ τῆς Ἰακώβου διαδοχῆς ἐπικρῖναι ἄξιον ποιήσασθαι, καὶ δὴ ἀπὸ μιᾶς γνώμης τοὺς πάντας Συμεῶνα τὸν τοῦ Κλωπᾶ, οὗ καὶ ἡ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου μνημονεύει γραφὴ, τοῦ τῆς αὐτόθι παροικίας θρόνου ἄξιον εἶναι δοκιμάσαι, ἀνεψιόν γε, ὥς φασι, γεγονότα τοῦ σωτῆρος. τὸν γὰρ οὖν Κλωπᾶν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ ὑπάρχειν Ἡγήσιππος ἱστορεῖ.
After the martyrdom of James, and the capture of Jerusalem which immediately followed, an account holds that those of the apostles and disciples of the Lord who were still surviving in this life came together from every quarter to the same place, along with those who were, according to the flesh, of the kindred of the Lord (for many of these too were still living at that time), and all together took counsel as to whom it was fitting to judge worthy of the succession of James. And with one accord they all approved Symeon, the son of Clopas, of whom the writing of the Gospel also makes mention, as worthy of the throne of the diocese there; he being, as they say, a cousin of the Saviour. For Hegesippus relates that Clopas was a brother of Joseph.
雅各殉道之後，緊接著耶路撒冷被攻陷，有一個記述說，使徒和主的門徒中那些還活在世上的，從各方聚到一處，連同那些按肉體說是主親屬的人（因為這些人中也有許多那時還活著），眾人一同商議，當判定誰配得繼承雅各的職分。他們眾人同心，都贊同革羅罷的兒子西面（福音書的記載也提到他）配得當地教區的寶座；據說他是救主的表兄弟。因為黑格西普記載，革羅罷是約瑟的弟兄。