The LORD answered Elijah's prayer; the child started breathing again and revived.

She answered, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the LORD really speaks through you!"

but when she came to Elisha, she bowed down before him and took hold of his feet. Gehazi was about to push her away, but Elisha said, "Leave her alone. Can't you see she's deeply distressed? And the LORD has not told me a thing about it."

Elisha turned to Gehazi and said, "Hurry! Take my walking stick and go. Don't stop to greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, don't take time to answer. Go straight to the house and hold my stick over the boy."

Gehazi went on ahead and held Elisha's stick over the child, but there was no sound or any other sign of life. So he went back to meet Elisha and said, "The boy didn't wake up."

He closed the door and prayed to the LORD.

Elisha got up, walked around the room, and then went back and again stretched himself over the boy. The boy sneezed seven times and then opened his eyes.

She fell at Elisha's feet, with her face touching the ground; then she took her son and left.

Just as he arrived at the gate of the town, a funeral procession was coming out. The dead man was the only son of a woman who was a widow, and a large crowd from the town was with her.

Then he walked over and touched the coffin, and the men carrying it stopped. Jesus said, "Young man! Get up, I tell you!"

They all were filled with fear and praised God. "A great prophet has appeared among us!" they said; "God has come to save his people!"

Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that you would see God's glory if you believed?"

I know that you always listen to me, but I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe that you sent me."

He came out, his hands and feet wrapped in grave cloths, and with a cloth around his face. "Untie him," Jesus told them, "and let him go."

Peter reached over and helped her get up. Then he called all the believers, including the widows, and presented her alive to them.

The Roman commander ordered his men to take Paul into the fort, and he told them to whip him in order to find out why the Jews were screaming like this against him.

But when they had tied him up to be whipped, Paul said to the officer standing there, "Is it lawful for you to whip a Roman citizen who hasn't even been tried for any crime?"

At once the men who were going to question Paul drew back from him; and the commander was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had put him in chains.

But Peter and John answered them, "You yourselves judge which is right in God's sight---to obey you or to obey God.

For when the dead rise to life, they will be like the angels in heaven and will not marry.

For when the dead rise to life, they will be like the angels in heaven and will not marry.

and you will be blessed, because they are not able to pay you back. God will repay you on the day the good people rise from death."

They will be like angels and cannot die. They are the children of God, because they have risen from death.

and come out of their graves: those who have done good will rise and live, and those who have done evil will rise and be condemned.

When Paul saw that some of the group were Sadducees and the others were Pharisees, he called out in the Council, "Fellow Israelites! I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees. I am on trial here because of the hope I have that the dead will rise to life!"

I have the same hope in God that these themselves have, namely, that all people, both the good and the bad, will rise from death.

So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: "Death is destroyed; victory is complete!"

in the hope that I myself will be raised from death to life.