2 Maccabees 4:47-49

Good News Translation

⁴⁷ and declare Menelaus innocent of the charges against him. So Menelaus was set free, although he had caused the trouble; but the three men, whom even the cruel Scythians would have declared innocent, were sentenced to death. ⁴⁸ The three men had spoken in defense of Jerusalem, its people,^[a] and the sacred objects stolen from the Temple, but they were quickly and unjustly executed. ⁴⁹ Some of the people of Tyre, however, showed their disgust with this crime and their respect for these men by giving them a splendid funeral.