and women received back their dead raised to life.<n id="1" /> But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">And so he is the mediator<n id="1" /> of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised,<n id="2" /> since he died<n id="3" /> to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.