He walked up, opened the blanket, and laid his hands on the young man. The ones carrying it stopped and waited to see what he would do. “Young man,” he said out loud, “rise up!”
“I am the rising from the dead and the life that follows,” he told her. “The ones who trust me will live again, even after death. Death will never be the end of the ones who are alive and trust in me. Do you believe what I am saying to you?”
The Sacred Teachings tell us, “I have made you the father of many nations.” And in the eyes of the Great Spirit he is our father, for he put his trust in the Great Spirit, the one who gives life to the dead and speaks into being things that are not yet as if they already were.
To the amazement of all, he sat up and began to talk. Creator Sets Free (Jesus) then gave him back to his mother. Her weeping turned to joy as she threw her arms around her son and kept kissing his face.