Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;
For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender shoots thereof will not cease.
Yet at the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth branches like a plant.
Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.
You fool, that which you sow is not made alive, except it die: