43 Here I am about to die, but you know that I am innocent, that these men are lying. Why must I die?”
44 The Lord heard her prayer
45 and led a young man named Daniel to speak out, just as Susanna was being taken away to her death.
46 He shouted, “I refuse to be a party to her death!”
47 Everyone turned round to look at him and asked, “What are you talking about?”
48 Daniel stood up before them and said, “People of Israel, how foolish can you be? Are you going to condemn an Israelite woman to death on this kind of evidence? You haven't even tried to find out the truth.
49 Reopen the case. The testimony these men gave was a lie.”