4 Maccabees 10:1-3

Common English Bible

The third brother’s torture and response

10 When the second brother had also endured a heroic death, the third brother was brought forward. Many people urged him again and again to taste the pork in order to save himself. ² He shouted out in response: “Don’t you know that I come from the same father as those who have just died, that the same mother gave birth to me, and that I was raised with the same teaching? ³ I won’t deny these dignified family ties!”^[a]