2 Maccabees 3:36-38

New Catholic Bible

³⁶ He bore witness to everyone about the miracles of the supreme God that he had witnessed with his own eyes.

³⁷ When the king asked Heliodorus what sort of man would be suitable to send to Jerusalem on some future occasion, he replied: ³⁸ “If you have an enemy or someone who has been a traitor to your government, send him there. You will get him back soundly flogged, if indeed he manages to survive at all. Without question, there is some peculiarly divine power about the place.