Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,
You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
“For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.