2 Maccabees 6:28-30

Common English Bible

²⁸ and to leave a fine example for the young people of how to die a good death with eagerness and dignity for the revered and sacred laws.” After he spoke he immediately approached the torture instrument. ^29 [a] Those who had shown goodwill toward him earlier now felt hostility toward him,^[b] because the words he had spoken seemed insane to them. ³⁰ When his life was about to end from the beating, he groaned, “It is clear to the Lord with his sacred knowledge that, although I could have been saved from death, I endure in my body harsh pain from this beating, yet in my soul I cheerfully suffer these things because I respect him.”