2 Esdras 1:35-37

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁵ I will give your houses to a people that will come, who without having heard me will believe. Those to whom I have shown no signs will do what I have commanded. ³⁶ They have seen no prophets, yet will recall their former state.^{[a] 37} I call to witness the gratitude of the people that is to come, whose children rejoice with gladness;^[b] though they do not see me with bodily eyes, yet with the spirit they will believe the things I have said.