4 Maccabees 11:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹¹ In this condition, gasping for breath and in anguish of body, ¹² he said, ‘Tyrant, they are splendid favours that you grant us against your will, because through these noble sufferings you give us an opportunity to show our endurance for the law.’

¹³ When he too had died, the sixth, a mere boy, was led in. When the tyrant inquired whether he was willing to eat and be released, he said,