Elijah carried the boy downstairs and gave him to his mother and said, “See! Your son is alive!”
The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy began breathing again and was alive.
“Now I know you really are a man from God,” the woman said to Elijah. “I know that the Lord truly speaks through you!”
And the son sat up and began to talk. Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.
On the way the man’s servants came and met him and told him, “Your son is alive.”
He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and the widows into the room and showed them that Tabitha was alive.
Women received their dead relatives raised back to life. Others were tortured and refused to accept their freedom so they could be raised from the dead to a better life.