4 Maccabees 8:27-29

Common English Bible

²⁷ Even though these young men were about to be tortured, they didn’t say or even think about such things. ²⁸ They held their emotions in check and had full control over their pain. ²⁹ Therefore, as soon as the tyrant finished giving them advice about eating the forbidden food, they said together with one voice and with the same mind: