1 Maccabees 2:35-37

New Catholic Bible

³⁵ Then the enemy immediately launched an attack on them, ³⁶ but they did not retaliate, neither hurling rocks nor barricading their hiding places. ³⁷ They only said, “Let us all die in a state of innocence. Heaven and earth are our witnesses that you are massacring us without the slightest justification.”