2 Maccabees 3:31-33

New Catholic Bible

³¹ Some of the companions of Heliodorus quickly pleaded with Onias to entreat the Most High to spare the life of the man who was now breathing his last. ³² Fearful that the king might suspect that Heliodorus had met with foul play at the hands of the Jews, the high priest offered a sacrifice for the man’s recovery. ³³ While the high priest was making a sacrifice of expiation, the same young men again appeared to Heliodorus, clad in the identical apparel, and stood before him. “Be very grateful to the high priest Onias,” they said to him, “since it is for his sake that the Lord has spared your life.