4 Maccabees 15:12-14

Revised Standard Version

¹² Instead, the mother urged them on, each child singly and all together, to death for the sake of religion. ¹³ O sacred nature and affection of parental love, yearning of parents toward offspring, nurture, and indomitable suffering by mothers! ¹⁴ This mother, who saw them tortured and burned one by one, because of religion did not change her attitude.