1 Maccabees 2:35-37

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁵ Then the enemy^[a] quickly attacked them. ³⁶ But they did not answer them or hurl a stone at them or block up their hiding places, ³⁷ for they said, “Let us all die in our innocence; heaven and earth testify for us that you are killing us unjustly.”