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Following the Apostolic Age, many saints were said to resurrect the dead, as recorded in Orthodox Christian hagiographies. [citation needed] St. Columba supposedly raised a boy from the dead in the land of Picts [25] and St. Nicholas is said to have resurrected pickled children from a brine barrel during a famine by making the sign of the cross ...
[190] [web 2] Jesus is the "firstborn of the dead", prōtotokos, the first to be raised from the dead, thereby acquiring the "special status of the firstborn as the preeminent son and heir". [1] [web 2] Gregory Beale writes: "Firstborn" refers to the high, privileged position that Christ has as a result of the resurrection from the dead ...
There were numerous claims of divine healing during Wigglesworth's ministry. [14] These include a woman healed of a tumor, a woman healed of tuberculosis, a wheelchair-confined woman walking, and many more. [15] There were reports that people were raised from the dead, including his wife Polly. [16]
The raising of holy people who had died points to 'the resurrection of the last days' (Isaiah 26:19; Daniel 12:2) which starts with Jesus' resurrection. [2] It is only reported in Matthew, tied to the tearing of the temple curtain as the result of the earthquake noted in verse 51. [3]
Miracles were widely believed in around the time of Jesus. Gods and demigods such as Heracles (better known by his Roman name, Hercules), Asclepius (a Greek physician who became a god) and Isis of Egypt all were thought to have healed the sick and overcome death (i.e., to have raised people from the dead). [44]
Jesus arrived at the village of Nain during the burial ceremony of the son of a widow, and raised the young man from the dead. (Luke 7:11–17) The location is the village of Nain, two miles south of Mount Tabor.
General resurrection or universal resurrection is the belief in a resurrection of the dead, or resurrection from the dead (Koine: ἀνάστασις [τῶν] νεκρῶν, anastasis [ton] nekron; literally: "standing up again of the dead" [1]) by which most or all people who have died would be resurrected (brought back to life).
Many of the resurrectional hymns of the normal Sunday service which are omitted on Palm Sunday are chanted on Lazarus Saturday. During the Divine Liturgy, the Baptismal Hymn, "As many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ", [59] is sung in place of the Trisagion. Although the forty days of Great Lent end on the day before Lazarus ...