Therefore Elisha entered into the house, and, lo! the dead child lay in his bed.
Forsooth it was done after these words, the son of a woman house-wife, was sick, and the sickness was full strong, so that breath dwelled not in him.
Certainly she went up, and laid him on the little bed of the man of God, and closed the door. And she went out,
And Gehazi went before them, and putted [or put] the staff upon the face of the child; and there was not voice in him, neither wit. And Gehazi turned again into the meeting of him; and told to him, and said, The child rose not.
And he entered, and closed the door on himself, and on the child; and prayed to the Lord.
And so Jesus came, and found him having then four days in the grave.