4 Maccabees 15:11-13

Revised Standard Version

¹¹ Nevertheless, though so many factors influenced the mother to suffer with them out of love for her children, in the case of none of them were the various tortures strong enough to pervert her reason. ¹² Instead, the mother urged them on, each child singly and all together, to death for the sake of religion. ¹³ O sacred nature and affection of parental love, yearning of parents toward offspring, nurture, and indomitable suffering by mothers!