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What did Jesus teach respecting the resurrection of the dead and the doctrine of immortality?
“For the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth” ([John v, 28, 29]).
“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life” ([39]).
“As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.”—Job ([vii, 9]).
“His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.”—Psalms ([cxlvi, 4]).
“For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts.... As one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath, so that man hath no preeminence over a beast.”—Ecclesiastes ([iii, 19]).