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In the tombs (en tois mnēmeiois). Taphos (grave) presents the notion of burial (thaptō, to bury) as in Mat 23:27, mnēmeion (from mnaomai, mimnēskō, to remind) is a memorial (sepulchre as a monument). Jesus claims not only the power of life (spiritual) and of judgment, but of power to quicken the actual dead at the Last Day. They will hear his voice and come out (ekporeusontai, future middle indicative of ekporeuomai). A general judgment and a general bodily resurrection we have here for both good and bad as in Mat 25:46; Act 24:15; 2Co 5:10 and as often implied in the words of Jesus (Mat 5:29.; Mat 10:28; Luk 11:32). In Joh 6:39 Jesus asserts that he will raise up the righteous.