But when you give them breath, they are created; you give new life to the earth.

After three and a half days a life-giving breath came from God and entered them, and they stood up; and all who saw them were terrified.

Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given the power to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been executed because they had proclaimed the truth that Jesus revealed and the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image, nor had they received the mark of the beast on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and ruled as kings with Christ for a thousand years.

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over.) This is the first raising of the dead.