Greatest Story Ever Told: The Exile

…“We do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”

...They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent.

So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den...

...That for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that he be put to death. The only exception to this is for the king to extend the gold scepter to him and spare his life. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.

“I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman...