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.

During the terrible persecution of Christians by the emperor Decius, seven young men belonging to the best and noblest families of the city of Ephesus, fleeing from torture, hid in a cave on the solitary mountain Ochlon, located not far from the city. Unfortunately, their whereabouts were discovered, and, by order of Decius, the entrance to the cave was blocked with stones and walled up, in order to destroy the fugitives with hunger and thirst. A royal seal was attached to the walled-up entrance, so that no one would dare to release the prisoners. But the Lord preserved His chosen ones from suffering, and they fell into a quiet, deep, long sleep.

Two hundred years have passed since then, and the memory of the seven youths buried alive has mingled with the memory of all the other martyrs who died during the persecution of Decius.

Years passed, and with them the emperors and events changed. Constantine reigned on the Byzantine throne, and the moribund paganism gave way to Christianity. A cruel schism shook the church, and under Theodosius II there arose a dangerous sect of heretics, who rejected the resurrection of the dead.

Just at that time, that is, two hundred years after the seven youths had been immured in the cave, a peasant climbed Mount Ochlon in search of material for the construction of a stable. When he saw the well-hewn and fitted stones that covered the entrance to the cave, he broke down the wall and, gathering as many stones as he could, took it to his place.

Through the hole, daylight poured into the cave like a wave. And then the seven youths, suddenly awakened, rose to their feet and greeted the coming of the day with the usual prayers. Going on with their daily lives, as if they had fallen asleep only the day before, they began to consult as to what they should do, and they decided to send a lad from among themselves, named Iamblichus, to the market to purchase provisions, the supply of which had been exhausted.

The appearance of Iamblichus in the market caused general amazement and excitement. His face, pale as a dead man's, his strange costume, the style of which had long since been abandoned by everyone, the silver coins minted 200 years ago, with which he wanted to pay the market merchants, all seemed unusual and suspicious. They seized Jamblichus and brought him to the bishop of Ephesus, Saint Stephen. Here the lad told everything that had happened to him and his friends. The young man's story seemed so incredible that the bishop and the proconsul with a crowd of guards went to check on it.

But when they all reached the cave and saw six pale youths dressed in ancient clothes, a reverent horror chained them at the entrance. They fell on their knees and glorified God in His deeds, while the seven youths confessed their faith and bore witness to their resurrection, as if to shame the blasphemers who dared to deny this dogma of the Christian religion.