1
When he too had endured a glorious death, the third was led in, and many repeatedly urged him to save himself by tasting the meat.
2
But he shouted, "Do you not know that the same father begot me and those who died, and the same mother bore me, and that I was brought up on the same teachings?
3
I do not renounce the noble kinship that binds me to my brothers."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.