4 Maccabees 4:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹² For he said that he had committed a sin deserving of death, and that if he were spared he would praise the blessedness of the holy place before all people. ¹³ Moved by these words, the high priest Onias, although otherwise he had scruples about doing so, prayed for him so that King Seleucus would not suppose that Apollonius had been overcome by human treachery and not by divine justice. ¹⁴ So Apollonius,^[a] having been saved beyond all expectations, went away to report to the king what had happened to him.