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* In ''The Jailhouse Job'' on [[Leverage]] {{spoiler|_Nate}}, arrested in the season 2 finale, refuses the team's offer of rescue until someone else is in trouble.
 
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
== Mythology and Religion ==
* Christ Jesus, who willingly gave himself up to suffer something as terrible as crucifixion so we wouldn't have to, making this [[Older Than Feudalism]]: "Do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and he will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?" ([[The Bible|Matthew 26:53 NKJV]])
** In the same book, two missionaries (Paul and Silas, to be exact) are locked up in jail when a miracle happens and the jail wall collapses. The guard freaks out that he'll be punished, but then sees that they just stayed in their cell singing hymns.