Naim. They were allowed to return once more to their erstwhile biological life, which sooner or later would have to end, after all, with death. What happened in Jesus’ case was quite different: he did not return to the old life but began a new one, a life that is ultimate, no longer subject to nature’s law of death but standing in God’s freedom and hence final and absolute. A life, therefore, that is no longer part of the realm of physics and biology, although it has integrated matter and nature