11:35 Women received back their dead. A reference to events recorded in 1 Kin. 17:22, 23; 2 Kin. 4:36, 37.

Some were tortured. An apparent reference to events during the Maccabean revolt (c. 167–157 b.c.), which occurred after the close of the Old Testament, but which are recorded in 2 Maccabees 6; 7 in the Apocrypha.