4 Maccabees 10:6

⁶ They dragged around his fingers, his arms, his legs, and his ankles. (WEB)

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4 Maccabees 6:2–4

² First, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the beauty of piety. (WEB) ³ Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully flogged him. (WEB) ⁴ A herald opposite cried out, “Obey the commands of the king!” (WEB)

Mark 14:51–53

⁵¹ One young man who had been following Jesus was wearing a linen cloth around his body. They caught hold of him, ⁵² but he pulled free of the linen cloth and ran away naked. ⁵³ They led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests, elders, and scribes assem…

4 Maccabees 9:10–12

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4 Maccabees 11:17–19

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4 Maccabees 6:24–26

²⁴ Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire. (WEB) ²⁵ Then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burned him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils. (WEB) ²⁶ He being at length burned down… (WEB)

3 Maccabees 4:8–10

⁸ The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigor, instead of crowns, wore ropes round their necks. Instead of feasting and youthful celebration, they spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailing, and saw only the grave at hand. (WEB) ⁹ They were dragged… (WEB) ¹⁰ … (WEB)

4 Maccabees 11:10–12

¹⁰ to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion. (WEB) ¹¹ With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said, (WEB) ¹² “A great favor yo… (WEB)

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