![]() Paul raises someone from the dead too, Eutychus. She opens her eyes, sees Peter, and sits up. Then he turns to the dead woman and tells her to get up. When she dies the people in her hometown send for Peter. Her name is Tabatha, also called Dorcas, and she lives in Joppa. In the early church, Peter also raises someone from the dead. We see Jesus raising three specific people from the dead, along with many more who had lived holy lives. This mass resurrection symbolically shows Jesus’s victory over death, confirmed by many people rising from the dead. We don’t know their names or how many there are, but their reappearance would surely have astounded everyone ( Matthew 27:50–53). The bodies of many holy people buried in the cemetery come to life. When Jesus dies, the curtain in the temple rips in half, the earth quakes, and tombs crack open. ![]() But eventually they roll away the stone, unblocking the entrance to the tomb. They worry about the stench from Lazarus’s decaying body. Jesus tells them to unseal the tomb, but the people object. ![]() After interacting with the two mourning sisters, Jesus goes to the tomb were Lazarus’s body lays. Jesus doesn’t leave right away, and Lazarus dies.īy the time Jesus shows up, Lazarus has been dead and buried for four days. His sisters, Mary and Martha, send for Jesus to come heal their ailing brother. Life flows back into her body and she stands ( Luke 8:40–56). Jesus takes her hand and tells her to get up. When Jesus arrives, he proclaims to the mourners gathered that she isn’t dead but merely sleeping. Jesus tells Jairus to not worry and believe. Before he can get to Jairus’s house, the girl dies. Jesus agrees but another hurting person delays him along the way. Jairus’s DaughterĪnother time, a synagogue leader, Jairus, begs Jesus to come to his house to heal his sick girl. The corpse sits up and talks ( Luke 7:11–17). He commands the dead boy’s body to get up. He tells the grieving mother, who is also a widow, to not cry. He sees a funeral possession and stops it. In the New Testament, Jesus goes to the town of Nain. God grants it, and we see it come to pass, with Elijah raising one person to life and Elisha resurrecting two ( 2 Kings 2:9–12). Interestingly, when Elisha gets ready to succeed Elijah, Elisha asks for a double portion of Elijah’s spirit. These are the three resurrections that occur in the Old Testament, one from Elijah and two from Elisha, albeit the second one after Elisha’s death. When the dead body touches Elisha’s bones, it comes to life and stands up, very much alive ( 2 Kings 13:20–21). In one of the more bizarre resurrections, a dead man’s body is hastily thrown into Elisha’s tomb. The boy sneezes seven times, and his eyes open. Elisha paces the room a bit and tries again. When Elisha arrives, he prays to God and lays on top of the boy. He sends his servant Gehazi to go to lay Elisha’s staff on the boy to bring him back to life. ![]() His mother, a Shunammite woman, searches for Elisha and tells him what happened. The pain intensifies, and at noon the boy dies. The boy labors in the field with his father and gets a headache. Shunammite Woman’s SonĮlijah’s successor, Elisha, also raises a boy from the dead. God does, and the boy’s mother affirms Elijah ( 1 King 17:17-24). Three times he stretches himself over the dead body and asks God to return the child’s life. He goes to where the boy’s body lays, and he cries out to God. The woman lashes out at Elijah, blaming him and God.Įlijah shoves aside her hurtful words. Her boy gets sick, his illness gets worse, and he dies. The first person the Bible records as raised from the dead is the son of a widow in Zarephath. Check out these stories of people supernaturally raised from the dead. This happens on ten occasions, with three resurrections occurring in the Old Testament and seven times in the New. In the Bible, dead people return to life. Resurrections Occur in Both the Old and New Testaments ![]()
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