Logos Bible Study

2 Maccabees 3:31–33

New Revised Standard Version: Updated EditionOther versions

31Some of Heliodorus’s friends quickly begged Onias to call upon the Most High to grant life to one who was lying quite at his last breath.* 32So the high priest, fearing that the king might get the notion that some foul play had been perpetrated by the Jews with regard to Heliodorus, offered sacrifice for the man’s recovery.* 33While the high priest was making the atonement, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus dressed in the same clothing, and they stood and said, “Be very grateful to the high priest Onias, since for his sake the Lord has granted you your life.*

Read in Logos

Cross references

  1. *v 1; Jas 5:15
  2. *2 Macc 4:1
  3. *v 26; Jas 5:15