2 Maccabees 7:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹¹ and said nobly, ‘I got these from Heaven, and because of his laws I disdain them, and from him I hope to get them back again.’ ¹² As a result the king himself and those with him were astonished at the young man’s spirit, for he regarded his sufferings as nothing.

¹³ After he too had died, they maltreated and tortured the fourth in the same way.