As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.

The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

So he replied to the messengers, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.

Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman

Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him.

While Jesus was still speaking, someone came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he said. “Don’t bother the teacher anymore.”

Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her. “Stop wailing,” Jesus said. “She is not dead but asleep.”

They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was going on. And he was perplexed because some were saying that John had been raised from the dead,

Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.

For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.

But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

“‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

“He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

“Where, Lord?” they asked. He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”

But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,

But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”

In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,