Before His Resurrection
Jun 29th 2025
Scripture records five ocassions when persons died and were brouhgt back to life.
- 1 kings 17:10-24 (Elijah brings back to life a woman's son in Zarapheth.)
- 2 Kings 4:8-17 (Elisha brings back to life the Shunammite woman's son.)
- Luke 7:11-17 (The son of a widow in Naim is raised from the dead.)
- Mark 5:21-43 (The daughter of Jairus is raised from the dead.)
- John 11: 1-44 (Lazarus is raised from the dead.)
They all lived and died and were raised back to life again, and there was the resurrection of Jesus.
All five tellings are interesting recollections of the dead being raised from the dead and all are recorded in the in cannon of Scripture. All are worthy of your individual reading. Perhaps there are other more, hidden in plain sight, waiting to be found and claimed and recalled to our Lord as evidence of His power, of what has been done and can be again.
Why not now for you and you and for me? It is indeed a big Ask. But He is a bigger God! A god who spoke all creation into exisitence, a God who cast our accuser down from Heaven, a god of all might and knowledge, who is everywhere all the time with the power to stop or turn any event before it occurs, who is Glory and Majesty forever.
Ephesians 3:20 NRV
With God's power working within us, He can do much, much more than anything we can ask or think of. (21) To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus for all time, forever and ever. Amen.