"This testimony of the resurrection of the dead God has inscribed in His deeds," says Blessed Tertullian.

Finally, there are many facts in history of the actual resurrection of people who died.

In the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament, several such cases are reported.

When, during a terrible drought and famine in Israel, the Prophet Elijah took refuge in the house of the widow of Zarephath, the son of this woman, the mistress of the house, fell ill, and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? Thou hast come unto me to remind me of my sins, and to put my son to death. And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her arms, and carried him into the upper room where he dwelt, and laid him on his bed, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God! Wilt Thou also do evil to the widow with whom I dwell by putting her son to death? And having prostrated himself over the lad three times, he cried out to the Lord and said: "Lord my God, let the soul of this lad return to him! And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the lad returned to him, and he lived. And Elijah took the lad, and brought him out of the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother, and said to Elijah, Behold, thy son lives. And the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is true."

Thus narrates the Third Book of Kings (1 Kings 1:10). XVII, 17–24). A similar incident is told about the disciple and successor of Elijah, the prophet Elisha.

A Shunammite woman, with whom the prophet sometimes stayed for the night, had a son die. And she went, and laid him on the bed of a man of God, and locked him up, and went out, and called her husband, and said, Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, and I will go to the man of God, and return. He said, "Why do you need to go to him?" Today is not the New Moon or the Sabbath. But she said, all right. And she saddled the ass, and said to her servant, Lead and go; do not stop until I tell you. And she went and came to the man of God, to Mount Carmel. And when the man of God saw her from afar, he said to his servant Gehazi, "This is the Shunammite woman." Run to meet her and say to her: "Are you well? Is your husband well? Is the child healthy?" – She said: "Healthy." And when she came to the man of God on the mountain, she took hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to take her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her, her soul is grieved, and the Lord hid her from me and did not tell me." And she said, "Have I asked my lord for a son?" Did I not say, "Do not deceive me"? And he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my rod in thy hand, and depart; if you meet someone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him; and put my staff on the face of the child. And the mother of the child said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives!" I will not leave you. And he got up and followed her. Gehazi went ahead of them and placed the rod on the child's face. But there was no voice, no answer. And he went out to meet him, and told him, and said, The child is not awake. And Elisha went into the house, and behold, the dead child was lying on his bed. And he went in, and shut the door behind him, and prayed to the Lord. And he arose, and lay down over the child, and put his mouth to his mouth, and his eyes to his eyes, and his hands to his hands, and stretched out on him, and the child's body was warmed. And he arose, and walked up and down the upper room; And the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. And he called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite woman." And he called her. She came to him, and he said, "Take your son." And she came and fell at his feet, and bowed down to the ground; And she took her son, and went. Elisha returned to Gilgal (2 Kings 2:10). IV, 21–38).

In the life and work of the Lord, the Gospel records three instances of the resurrection of the dead: the resurrection of Jairus' daughter (Mk. V, 35-43), the son of the widow of Nain (Lk. VII, 12-15) and Lazarus after a four-day stay in the tomb (Jn. XI, 1-44).

At the very moment of the Lord's death, according to the testimony of the Evangelist Matthew, the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep rose again, and having come out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered into the holy city, and appeared to many (Matt. XXVII, 52–53).

Finally, the most striking fact is the three-day resurrection of our Lord and Saviour in a spiritualized, glorified and different from the ordinary human body; Flesh. This resurrection, according to the Apostle Paul, serves as the foundation and guarantee of the future resurrection of all people.

We repeatedly encounter cases of resurrection in the subsequent history of the Church of Christ after the death of the Savior. Two such cases are found in the Book of the Acts of the Holy Apostles.

In Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which means "chamois"; She was full of good deeds and did many almsgiving. It happened in those days that she fell ill and died. They washed her and laid her in the upper room. And when Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him to ask him not to delay in coming to them. Peter got up and went with them; and when he arrived, they led him into the upper room, and all the widows stood before him with tears, showing him the shirts and dresses that Serna had made while living with them. Peter sent them all out, and kneeling down, he prayed, and turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat down. He gave her his hand, lifted it up, and calling the saints and widows, set it alive before them (Acts 2:11). IX, 36–41).

Another incident is from the history of the preaching activity of the Apostle Paul, which took place in Troas.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul, intending to go the next day, talked with them and continued his discourse until midnight. In the upper room, where we gathered, there were plenty of lamps. During Paul's long conversation, a certain youth, named Eutychus, who was sitting on the window, fell into a deep sleep and, staggering, fell sleepily down from the third dwelling, and was raised dead. And Paul came down, and fell upon him, and embraced him, and said, Be not troubled, for his soul is in him. In the meantime they brought the lad alive, and were greatly comforted. (Acts 2:10). XX, 7-12).

In the first centuries of Christianity, the facts of the resurrection sometimes occurred through the prayers of the great saints of God, and perhaps the most remarkable of these facts is recounted in the biography of the so-called Seven Youths of Ephesus.