Chapter 68

¹ Then Nebuchadnezzar came to the door of the burning furnace and said: “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and draw near.”

² For since he himself could not enter into the furnace, he called those men to come out.

³ And he called the names of the three, but of the fourth he could not find words to speak; for Jesus had not yet been born of the Virgin.

⁴ And the satraps and the generals and the local rulers and the king’s mighty men gathered together and observed the men, that the fire had no power over their bodies, and not a hair of their head was singed, and their trousers were not altered, and there was no smell of fire on them.