who will change our lowly [physical] bodies and make them like His glorious body. [He will do this] according to the power that enables Him even to bring everything into submission to Himself.
just as it is written [Gen. 17:5], “I [i.e., God] have made you [i.e., Abraham] forefather of many nations.” He received this promise in the presence of God, in whom he believed, and who gives life [back] to dead people and who refers to things [promised] as though they were [already] fulfilled.
They laughed at Him scornfully. But after having all the people wait outside He took the child’s father and mother, along with those who came with Him [i.e., Peter, James and John] and went in to where the [dead] child lay.