Resurrection

====Resurrection miracles====
[[File:Bonnat01.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''The Resurrection of Lazarus'', painting by [[Leon Bonnat]], France, 1857]]
{{Main|Miracles of Jesus#Resurrection of the dead}}
In the [[New Testament]], Jesus is said to have raised several persons from death. These resurrections included the daughter of [[Jairus]] shortly after death, a young man in the midst of his own [[funeral]] procession, and [[Lazarus of Bethany]], who had been buried for four days.

During the [[Ministry of Jesus]] on earth, before his death, Jesus commissioned his [[Twelve Apostles]] to, among other things, raise the dead.<ref>Not in the [[Great Commission]] of the resurrected Jesus, but only in the so-called [[Matthew 10|''Lesser Commission'']] of Matthew, specifically {{bibleverse||Matthew|10:8}}.</ref>

Similar resurrections are credited to the [[twelve apostles|apostles]] and Catholic saints. In the [[Acts of the Apostles]], [[Saint Peter]] raised a woman named [[Dorcas]] (also called Tabitha), and [[Paul the Apostle]] revived a man named [[Eutychus]] who had fallen asleep and fell from a window to his death. According to the [[Gospel of Matthew]], after Jesus's resurrection, many of those previously dead came out of their tombs and entered [[Jerusalem in Christianity|Jerusalem]], where they appeared to many. Following the [[Apostolic Age]], many saints were said to resurrect the dead, as recorded in [[Orthodoxy#Christianity|Orthodox Christian]] hagiographies.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} [[Columba|St. Columba]] supposedly raised a boy from the dead in the land of Picts<ref>Adomnan of Iona. Life of St Columba. Penguin books, 1995</ref> and [[Saint Nicholas|St. Nicholas]] is said to have resurrected pickled children from a brine barrel during a famine by making the [[sign of the cross]].<ref>{{citation|last=Ferguson|first=George|date=1976|orig-year=1954|chapter=St. Nicholas of Myra or Bari|title=Signs and Symbols in Christian Art|location=Oxford, England|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=136}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=409|title=St. Nicholas Center: Saint Nicolas|website=stnicholascenter.org|access-date=22 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205211459/http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=409|archive-date=5 December 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>