4 Maccabees 8:27

27 But the youths, though about to be tortured, neither said any of these things nor even seriously considered them.

4 Maccabees 8:27 In-Context

25 Not even the law itself would arbitrarily put us to death for fearing the instruments of torture.

26 Why does such contentiousness excite us and such a fatal stubbornness please us, when we can live in peace if we obey the king?"

27 But the youths, though about to be tortured, neither said any of these things nor even seriously considered them.

28 For they were contemptuous of the emotions and sovereign over agonies,

29 so that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counseling them to eat defiling food, all with one voice together, as from one mind, said: