“RESURRECTION. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding.” (S & H, p. 539:9)
Four instances of Jesus raising the dead:
(1) Widow of Nain’s son – Luke 7:11-17
(2) Jairus’ daughter – Luke 8:41-56
(3) Lazarus – John 11:1-44
(4) His own Resurrection: Mat 28:1-20; Mark 16:1-20; Luke 24:1-49; John 20:1-31
Other instances of the raising of the dead:
(1) I Kings 17:17-24 – Elijah raised the widow of Zarephath’s son
(2) II Kings 4:18-37 – Elisha raised the Shunammite woman’s son
(3) II Kings 13:20-21 – Man revived as soon as his body touched Elisha’s bones
(4) Matt 27:50-54 – “Many bodies of the saints” arose from the dead upon Jesus dying on the cross
(5) Acts 9:36-42 – Peter raised Tabitha (Dorcas)
(6) Acts 14: 19-20 – Paul stoned – supposing him dead, the disciples stood round about him and he rose up
(7) Acts 20:7-12 – Paul raised Eutychus after he fell down from the third loft window, and was taken up dead
(8) John apparently raised his faithful disciple, Drusiana, and 2 others at Ephesus – see Revelations from an Archive: An Update on the Apocalypse, New York Public Library Research Fellow, 10/23/2020, and
The Acts of John, Mary Jane Chaignot)
“. . . the miraculous cure of diseases of the most inveterate or even preternatural kind can no longer occasion any surprise, when we recollect that in the days of Irenaeus, about the end of the second century, the resurrection of the dead was very far from being esteemed an uncommon event; that the miracle was frequently performed on necessary occasions, by great fasting and the joint supplication of the church of the place and that the persons thus restored to their prayers had lived afterwards among them many years. (from Theophilus ad Autolycum)” – Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon, Vol. 1, p. 408 – Raising of the Dead with the early Christians for 300 years