29. and the very people who had treated him kindly a few minutes before, now turned against him, because they thought he had spoken like a madman.
30. When they had beaten him almost to the point of death, he groaned and said, “The Lord possesses all holy knowledge. He knows I could have escaped these terrible sufferings and death, yet he also knows that I gladly suffer these things, because I fear him.”
31. So Eleazar died. But his courageous death was remembered as a glorious example, not only by young people, but by the entire nation as well.