⁵ By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.”^[a](A) For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

²¹ When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.^{(A) 22} After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God^(B) 300 years and had other sons and daughters. ²³ Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. ²⁴ Enoch walked faithfully with God;^(C) then he was no more, because God took him away.^(D)

¹⁴ Enoch,^(A) the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming^(B) with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones^(C)

¹¹ As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire^(A) and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven^(B) in a whirlwind.^(C)

⁶ And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him^(A) must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

⁹ For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation^(A) will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.^{(B) 10} The inhabitants of the earth^(C) will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts,^(D) because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

¹¹ But after the three and a half days^(E) the breath^[a] of life from God entered them,^(F) and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. ¹² Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.”^(G) And they went up to heaven in a cloud,^(H) while their enemies looked on.

¹⁶ “Look,” they said, “we your servants have fifty able men. Let them go and look for your master. Perhaps the Spirit^(A) of the Lord has picked him up^(B) and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.”

“No,” Elisha replied, “do not send them.”

¹⁷ But they persisted until he was too embarrassed^(C) to refuse. So he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find him.

⁵¹ Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.”^(A)

⁵² At this they exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed!^(B) Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death.