2 Maccabees 6:30-31

Common English Bible

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.” ³¹ In this manner he died, and his own death left behind a most noble and memorable example of virtue not only for the youth but also for the majority of his nation.