World English Bible

2 Maccabees 6:27-29 World English Bible (WEB)

27. Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of mine old age,

28. and leave behind a noble ensample to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the reverend and holy laws. And when he had said these words, he went straightway to the instrument of torture.

29. And when they changed the good will they bare him a little before into ill will, because these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness,