⁸ Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city^(A)—which is figuratively called Sodom^(B) and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.^{(C) 9} For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation^(D) will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.^(E)

¹¹ But after the three and a half days^(A) the breath^[a] of life from God entered them,^(B) 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.”^(C) And they went up to heaven in a cloud,^(D) while their enemies looked on.