2 Maccabees 3:31–33

Now some of Heliodorus’ intimate friends at once besought Onias to call upon the Most High, and so grant life to him, as he lay quite at the last gasp. The high-priest suspected that the king might imagine the Jews had perpetrated some foul play against Heliodorus, and he offered a sacrifice for the recovery of the man. But as the high-priest was offering the sacrifice of propitiation, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus, arrayed in the same robes; and they stood and said, Give Onias the high-priest hearty thanks, since it is for his sake that the Lord has granted thee thy life; and do thou,